Jonathan Gootenberg

Principal Investigator

MIT

Omar Abudayyeh

Principal Investigator

MIT

Jianli Tao

Postdoctoral Fellow - Chiarle Lab

Boston Children's Hospital/Harvard Medical School

Jayesh Kulkarni

CSO

NanoVation Therapeutics

Dan Hart

Head of Technology Development

Epic Bio

Buddha Gurung

Director, Cell Engineering

Century Therapeutics

Sean Alexander

Head of IP Strategy

Umicore

Sean Alexander is a qualified European Patent Attorney as well as a Canadian and U.S. Patent Agent. He has worked in the IP field for many years and is currently the Head of IP Strategy (H&N) for Chr. Hansen in Denmark. Prior to joining Chr. Hansen, Sean headed the IP team at Elanco Inc. based in the Netherlands and was a Partner with Gowling WLG in Canada. Sean has been recognized as one of the world's leading IP strategists by IAM Magazine and is regularly praised for his pragmatic and commercially aware approach to IP.

Sean Alexander

Head of IP Strategy

Chr Hansen

Lena Pauschenwein

Legal Officer

DG Grow | European Commission

Lena PAUSCHENWEIN, Legal Officer, Directorate-General GROW - Internal Market, Industry, Entrepreneurship and SMEs, European Commission, Brussels, Belgium

Lena Pauschenwein is a jurist specialised in intellectual property law and works in the Intangible Economy Unit of the Directorate-General for Internal Market, Industry, Entrepreneurship and SMEs (DG GROW) of the European Commission.

Lena holds law degrees from the University of Vienna (Magister iuris) and the University of Glasgow (LLM), both with a focus on intellectual property and technology law. Prior to joining the European Commission in 2021, she worked at the Austrian Supervisory Authority for Collective Management Organisations.