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Formerly Chief Legal and Operations Officer of Vivacelle Bio, Inc., & former VP, Commercialization and Business Development for a developmental stage medical device company, I am a C-suite executive, a life, chemical and pharmaceutical sciences business development & commercialization strategist and a pharmaceutical, biomedical, and life sciences intellectual property attorney with more than eleven years' experience. I have experience in fundraising, patent litigation and prosecution, intellectual property transactions encompassing licensing and assignments of patents and trademarks, pharmaceutical regulatory strategy. Also have experience drafting and/or conducting due diligence with respect to mergers and acquisitions, FDA law, contracts and business agreements, research and joint development collaborative agreements, service, manufacturing and quality control agreements and confidentiality agreements, restricted stock purchase agreements and private placement memoranda. I have a doctorate in Biochemistry from SUNY, Buffalo School of Medicine and Biomedical Sciences, a Masters in Biological Sciences from SUNY, Buffalo Department of Biological Sciences and a Juris Doctorate from SUNY, Buffalo Law School with a concentration in Intellectual Property and Technology Law. I also hold a Bachelor of Science in Biology with honors from Appalachian State University in Boone, NC. While in Law School, successfully completed a Graduate School Level Business of Biotechnology Business Management Course with an A grade at the School of Business, University of Buffalo and most recently in 2018, completed a Workshop and received a Certificate attesting to same entitled FDA c GMP for Phase I and First in Man Clinical Trials . I also completed post-baccalaureate course work in Advanced Organic Chemistry and Quantitative Analysis while at Appalachian State.Company Spotlight in Tech
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