Expert Witness Profile · Expert A260R
This expert is a Ph.D. medicinal and synthetic organic chemist and drug discovery leader, co-inventor of a marketed type 2 diabetes therapeutic and a contributor to the structure-based design behind a marketed oncology therapeutic, who now serves as a testifying expert in ANDA and Hatch-Waxman pharmaceutical patent litigation.
Expertise spans synthetic organic and medicinal chemistry, chemistry, manufacturing and controls, IND-enabling development, GMP and GLP active pharmaceutical ingredient manufacturing and supply chain, and structure-based and fragment-based drug design including targeted protein degradation. This expert has held a professor of synthetic organic chemistry appointment and led immunology medicinal chemistry at a biopharmaceutical company.
This expert has been retained across at least ten pharmaceutical patent matters, produced more than 17 expert reports, and given depositions and testimony. Attorneys retain this expert for ANDA and Hatch-Waxman disputes, composition of matter and obviousness questions, and process and formulation chemistry issues.
Credentials
Formal Education
- Ph.D. in Synthetic Organic Chemistry from the University of California, Irvine
- NIH Postdoctoral Fellowship in Natural Products Synthesis at Princeton University
Why Attorneys Retain This Expert
Expert Qualifications
- Co-inventor of a marketed type 2 diabetes therapeutic
- Retained across at least ten pharmaceutical patent (ANDA) matters
- More than 17 expert reports, with three trial testimonies and three depositions
- Professor of synthetic organic chemistry appointment and industry discovery leadership