2023 Speakers
Co-Chairs
Christine Bellon
Chief Legal Officer
Beam Therapeutics, Inc
Sharick Naqi
Director & Senior Counsel
Global IP Lead – Gene Therapies
Novartis Gene Therapies
Government Speakers
Anne Gussow
Supervisory Patent Examiner, Quality Assurance Specialist
USPTO
Karlheinz Skowronek
Supervisory Patent Examiner, Bioinformatics
USPTO
Julia Tierney
Chief of Staff
U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA)
Julie Wu
Supervisory Patent Examiner, Immunotherapy and Recombinant Antibodies
USPTO
Associations
Kendalle Burlin O’Connell, Esq.
President and CEO
MassBio
Academia
Jared Auclair
Vice Provost Research Economic Development
Director of Bioinnovation
Northeastern University
John Haugen
Associate General Counsel Office of General Counsel / Innovation and New Ventures Office (INVO)
Northwestern University
Deborah Cho
Attorney
Hogan Lovells
(Former Associate Chief Counsel, FDA)
Jason Bablak
Vice President, Regulatory Science, U.S.
Orchard Therapeutics
In-House Counsel
Cambria Alpha-Cobb
IP Counsel
Akouos
David Diamond
VP & Head of IP
Capstan Therapeutics
Deborah Hursh
Principal
Hursh Cell Therapy Consulting, LLC
(Former Senior Investigator, CMC Reviewer, CBER of FDA)
Kelly Morgan
VP, Head of IP and Legal
Arbor Biotechnologies, Inc.
Ken Nesmith
CBO, Oncology
Lunit
Aaron Pereira
Senior Director of Patents
Ferring Pharmaceuticals
Patrick Perry
Principal
Artesia Advisors LLC
Rana Sawaya
Sr. Director, Cell & Gene Therapies Patent Lead
BioNTech SE
Squire Servance
Founder & Managing Partner
Syridex Bio
Chuck Sholtz
Vice President, IP
Nutcracker Therapeutics
Todd Spalding
SVP, Deputy General Counsel
Alexion, AstraZeneca Rare Disease
Outside Counsel
Catherine A. Brandon
Partner
Arnold & Porter Kaye Scholer LLP
Thomas S. Brennan
Partner
ArentFox Schiff LLP
Laurie A. Burlingame
Partner
Goodwin Procter LLP
Jonathan S. Caplan
Partner
Kramer Levin Naftalis & Frankel LLP
Kevin A. O’Connor, PhD
Partner
Neal, Gerber & Eisenberg LLP
Eldora L. Ellison
Director
Sterne, Kessler, Goldstein & Fox PLLC
Ryan Hagglund
Partner
Loeb & Loeb LLP
Michael B. Harlin
Partner
Neal, Gerber & Eisenberg LLP
David Kim
Counsel
Gemini Law
Dan Liu
Attorney
Loeb & Loeb LLP
Mercedes K. Meyer
Attorney
Banner Witcoff
Brian W. Nolan
Partner
Mayer Brown LLP
Kevin E. Noonan
Partner
McDonnell Boehnen Hulbert & Berghoff LLP
William B. Raich
Partner
Finnegan, Henderson, Farabow, Garrett & Dunner, LLP
Lauren Pignataro Rakitin
Partner
Covington & Burling LLP
Charles G. Raver
Attorney
Hyman, Phelps & McNamara PC
Irena Royzman
Partner
Kramer Levin Naftalis & Frankel LLP
