Speakers

2023 Chairs

Tashica Williams Amirgholizadeh, Ph.D.

Senior Associate General Counsel, IP,
IP Alliance and Due Diligence (IPADD), Team Lead
Gilead Sciences, Inc.

Hilary Libka

Chief IP Counsel, Associate General Counsel
Memorial Sloan-Kettering Cancer Center

Michael Penn

Vice President, IP
BlueRock Therapeutics

Government Speaker

Hon. Rian Kalden

Presiding Judge, Court of Appeal
Unified Patent Court

In-House Counsel

Jens Bitsch-Norhave

VP Transactions & Innovation Partnering
Johnson & Johnson Innovation LLC

Emily Gardel

Associate Director, Patent Attorney
Dyno Therapeutics

Nicole Grimm

Legal Director, IP
Alnylam Pharmaceuticals

Henry Gu

SVP, Head of Intellectual Property
Zentalis Pharmaceuticals

Bo Han

Vice President, Intellectual Property
Orbital Therapeutics

Jeffrey L. Kopacz

SVP | Head of IP & Contracts
SalioGen Therapeutics

Gabriel J. McCool, Ph.D.

VP, Legal and IP
ReNAgade Therapeutics

Donna Meuth

Associate General Counsel IP
Eisai Inc.

Michael R. Myers, Ph.D.

VP Due Diligence
Eli Lilly Research Labs, Eli Lilly & Co

Erica Norey

Senior Counsel, Intellectual Property for Global Business Development & M&A
Sanofi

Samir Patel

Associate General Counsel, Global IP
Viatris

Aaron Pereira

Senior Director, Patents, Global IP
Ferring Pharmaceuticals

Adam Poulin-Kerstien

Vice President, Intellectual Property
Mersana Therapeutics

Brian Stone

Associate General Counsel, Global Legal-Regulatory
Viatris

William Vickery

Director of Due Diligence
Servier

Lindsey Wanner

Associate General Counsel, IP Alliance and Due Diligence
Gilead Sciences Inc.

Outside Counsel

Lawrence Cogswell, Ph.D.

Principal
Hamilton, Brook, Smith & Reynolds P.C.

Nithya Desikan

Operating Principal
Gurnet Point Capital

Julia Frost-Davis

Shareholder
Greenberg Traurig LLP

Emily Gardel

Associate Director, Patent Attorney
Dyno Therapeutics

Luba Greenwood, J.D.

Managing Partner
Dana Farber Cancer Institute Venture Fund, Binney Street Capital

Kathleen Gersh

Partner
Loeb & Loeb LLP

Kristin K. Going

Partner
McDermott, Will & Emery LLP

Dr. Christian Helbig

Patent Attorney
Hoefer & Partner Patentanwälte mbB

Lisa Hillman, Ph.D.

Partner
Lathrop GPM

Professor Willem Hoyng

Chairman, Advisory Committee of the UPC
Member, Drafting Committee of the UPC
Hoyng Rokh Monegier

Brenda Herschbach Jarrell, Ph.D.

Partner | Chair of Life Sciences Group
Choate, Hall and Stewart LLP

Michael P. Kahn

Partner
Akin Gump Strauss Hauer & Feld LLP

Kurt R. Karst

Director
Hyman, Phelps & McNamara, P.C

Mary Lynne Hedley, Ph.D.

Venture Partner
Third Rock Ventures

Daniel Margolis

Partner
Allen & Overy LLP

Mercedes Meyer

Attorney
Banner Witcoff

Samantha R. Morelli

Partner
Kirkland & Ellis LLP

Kevin Noonan, Ph.D.

Partner | Co-Chair Biotechnology and Pharmaceuticals Practice Group
McDonell Boehnen Hulbert & Berghoff LLP

Caitlin E. Olwell

Counsel
Akin Gump Strauss Hauer & Feld LLP

Matthew S. Rizzo

General Partner
OrbiMed Healthcare Fund Management

Daniel G. Rudoy, Ph.D

Shareholder | Executive Committee Member
Wolf, Greenfield & Sacks, P.C

Alicia Russo

Partner, Chair of IP Transactional Group
Venable Fitzpatrick LLP

Rebecca L. Simmons, Ph.D.

Counsel
McNeill Baur PLLC

DeAnn F. Smith

Partner
Foley Hoag LLP

Len S. Smith

Principal
Transformative Legal

Michael K. Stern

Of Counsel
Covington & Burling LLP

Robert H. Underwood

Partner
Hogan Lovells LLP

Ha Kung Wong

Partner
Venable Fitzpatrick LLP