Jennifer Johnson Email & Phone Number

Chapel Hill, Nc, Us

Greater Seattle Area

Blaze Bioscience, Inc. is a privately held biotechnology company focused on guided cancer therapy. Blaze was founded in 2010 by Dr. Jim Olson, a pediatric neuro-oncologist at the Fred Hutchinson Cancer Research Center and Seattle Children’s Hospital, and Heather Franklin, a former senior business executive from ZymoGenetics. Blaze is working to develop Tumor Paint products and Optide-based guided cancer therapeutics.

Research Triangle Park, North Carolina

• Legal advice and counseling related to patents and other intellectual property matters pertaining to Company business of discovering, acquiring, developing and commercializing innovations. • Demonstrate strong global leadership and strategic ability• Ensure worldwide patent portfolios are strategically aligned with business needs• Devise and implement holistic corporate biotechnology intellectual property strategy (patent, trade secret, PVP)• Ensure intellectual property FTO, and due diligence and negotiation for venture opportunities, in-license, out-license, financing, and merger/acquisition• M&A IP diligence and integration of intellectual property and teams• Post-patent and life cycle management for biotechnology products• Extensive experience with international collaborations and foreign centralized IP department• Manage outside counsel, including opinion, interference, opposition and patent litigation counsel• Contract review, negotiation, drafting, advising, enforcement, and diligence for major transactions• Manage worldwide intellectual property budget• Ensure compliance with laws and company policies within teams• Advice and compliance with Convention on Biologic Diversity (CBD) • Global strategist and direct communicator • Establish extensive collaborative internal and external relationships • Work productively in highly matrixed organization• Proactively manage multinational team

• Adept at interacting with and advising both business executives and scientists• Devises and implements corporate intellectual property strategy• Advises senior management on company intellectual property matters• Ensures patent due diligence for in-license, out-license, financing, and merger/acquisition• Ensures worldwide patent portfolio strategically aligned with business needs• Manages outside counsel, including opinion and patent litigation counsel• Contract review, negotiation, drafting, enforcement and advising and diligence for major transactions and collaboration and development agreements, R&D agreements, major strategic alliance agreements, supply and other manufacturing agreements• Manages worldwide intellectual property budget• Devises and implements corporate IP and publication policies• Strategic drafting and prosecution of US and foreign patent applications for biotechnology inventions• Human therapeutic proteins: cytokines, cytokine receptors, antibodies, multivalent antibodies, genomics• Life cycle management and patent term extension• Manages company trademarks

J.D.

M.S., Virology, Retrovirology, Felv, Retroviral Transcription And Cytopathic Regulation

B.A., Microbiology & Immunology

1985-1988 - Laboratory Assistant in Dr. Seymour Fogel’s Laboratory at the University of California, Berkeley, Department of Genetics: •.