Speakers

Esteemed Conference Co-Chairs

Cristin Berkey

VP, IP and Legal Affairs
Abata Therapeutics

Forrester Liddle

Head of Intellectual Property and Legal, US R&D
Novo Nordisk

Adrian Looney

Chief Intellectual Property Counsel
Vertex Pharmaceuticals

Government Speakers

Julie Tierney

Deputy Center Director for Strategy, Policy and Legislation
Center for Biologics
FDA

James Myers

Associate Director for Policy, CBER
FDA

Mary Till

Senior Legal Advisor
Office of Patent Legal Administration
USPTO

Distinguished Speakers

Laurie Burlingame

Partner
Morgan Lewis

Jonathan S. Caplan

Partner Co-Chair, Intellectual Property
Kramer Levin Naftalis & Frankel LLP

Elbert Chiang

VP, IP
Beam Therapeutics

Jennifer Fang

Partner
Wilson Sonsini Goodrich & Rosati

Emily Gardel

Associate Director, Patent Attorney II
Dyno Therapeutics

Ryan Hagglund

Partner
Loeb & Loeb LLP

Margaux J. Hall

Partner
Ropes & Gray LLP

Michael B. Harlin

Partner
Neal, Gerber & Eisenberg LLP

Thomas L. Irving

Senior Partner
The Marbury Law Group, PLLC

Matt Karlyn

Partner
Morrison & Foerster LLP

Nishla H. Keiser

Partner
Finnegan, Henderson, Farabow, Garrett & Dunner, LLP

Roger Kuan

Partner
Norton Rose Fulbright

Sam Kwon

Partner
Kirkland & Ellis LLP

JM Lee

Director, Business Development
Novo Nordisk

Dan Liu

Attorney
Loeb & Loeb LLP

Gabriel J. McCool

VP, Legal and IP
ReNAgade Therapeutics

David M. McIntosh

Partner
Ropes & Gray LLP

Kevin E. Noonan, Ph.D

Partner
McDonnell Boehnen Hulbert & Berghoff LLP

Paul A. Ragusa

Partner
Baker Botts L.L.P.

Charles G. Raver

Attorney
Hyman, Phelps & McNamara PC

Matthew Rizzo

General Partner
OrbiMed Advisors LLC

Irena Royzman

Partner, Head of Life Sciences
Kramer Levin Naftalis & Frankel LLP

Chuck Sholtz

VP, IP
Nutcracker Therapeutics

David Silverstein

Vice President, Intellectual Property
Rocket Pharmaceuticals, Inc.

Julie Tierney

Deputy Center Director for Strategy, Policy and Legislation
Center for Biologics
FDA

Jennifer Tousignant

Chief Legal Officer
Viridian Therapeutics

Margaret Welsh

Partner
Baker Botts LLP

Rebecca K. Wood

Partner
Sidley Austin LLP
(Former Chief Counsel, FDA)

Olga Zimmerman

Director, Intellectual Property
Caribou Biosciences, Inc.