Life Sciences Masters™ 2026 IPW Studios, Ashburn, VA
November 9-10, 2026
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Alden Abbott

Alden Abbott

Former FTC General Counsel; Senior Research Fellow

Mercatus Center at George Mason University

Ratib Ali, Ph.D.

Economist

Competition Dynamics

Christian Bauer

Fractional In-House IP Counsel

Multiple Biotech Companies

Brent Bellows

Brent R. Bellows, Ph.D.

Partner

Knowles Intellectual Property Strategies

Matt Beyersdorf, Ph.D.

Director of Intellectual Property

BioNTech

Isabella Bonisolo

Partner

Licks Attorneys

Kimberly Braslow

Senior Director, IP & Government Affairs

AstraZeneca

Jinjin Cai

Intellectual Property Specialist

Jecho Laboratories, Inc.

Steven Caltrider

Vice President and Chief Intellectual Property Officer

Dana-Farber Cancer Institute

Larry Coury

Senior VP, Chief IP Counsel, Assoc. General Counsel for IP Litigation

Regeneron Pharmaceuticals, Inc.

Arthur Daemmrich, Ph.D.

Director, Consortium for Science, Policy & Outcomes

Arizona State University

Sarah Fashena, Ph.D.

VP, Head of Intellectual Property Strategy

Ascidian Therapeutics, Inc.

Allison Gilder, Ph.D

Partner

Foley Hoag

Colin Heitzmann

Vice President of Intellectual Property

Travere Therapeutics

Emily Johnson

Head of Global Intellectual Property Policy, Innovation Law

Bristol Myers Squibb

Jim Kastenmayer, Ph.D.

General Counsel, Compliance Officer, and Secretary

ArriVent BioPharma

Patrick Kilbride

Patrick Kilbride

Policy Advisor, Public Speaker & Corporate Trainer

Kilbride Public Affairs

Sherry Knowles

Principal

Knowles Intellectual Property Strategies

Joshua Kresh

Research Professor, Executive Director

The IP Policy Institute, The University of Akron School of Law

Nicholas Lanzatella, Ph.D

Principal

Schwegman Lundberg & Woesner, P.A.

John Manchester

Director of IP Policy

U.S. Chamber of Commerce

Kwame Mensah

Assistant General Counsel, Oncology Biologics IP

AstraZeneca

Donna Meuth

Associate General Counsel, Intellectual Property

Eisai

Adam Perlman

Senior Vice President, Deputy General Patent Counsel-IP Litigation and IP Strategy

Eli Lilly

Gautam Prakash, Ph.D.

Partner

Wenderoth, Lind & Ponack, L.L.P.

Anthony Prosser, Ph.D.

Anthony R. Prosser, Ph.D.

Partner

Knowles Intellectual Property Strategies

Jon Putnam

Founder and Principal

Competition Dynamics, Inc.

John Rearick, Ph.D.

Partner

Cooley LLP

Corey Salsberg

Vice President and Global Head of IP Affairs

Novartis

Colin Sandercock

Vice President & General Counsel

Cue Biopharma, Inc.

Lauren Schneider

Partner

FBT Gibbons

Runa Shah-Qaderi

Intellectual Property Manager

Cellphire Therapeutics

Robert Trenchard

Partner

Gibson, Dunn & Crutcher

Maryanne Trevisan

Shareholder

Wolf, Greenfield & Sacks, P.C.

Justin Wilcox

Partner

Desmarais LLP

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