Veronika Hughes-Bednar

VP, Global Head of Legal Transactions

Astellas Pharma

Polyxeni Kyriopoulou

Head of Legal

Elpen Pharmaceuticals

Lena Moran-Adams

Group General Counsel

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Jennifer Ulbrich

Senior Legal Counsel

Roche

David Lawless

Senior Director, Assistant General Counsel

Regeneron

Daphné Derouane

Associate General Patent Counsel

UCB

Daphné DEROUANE is a qualified European Patent Attorney and holds a Ph.D. in Organic Chemistry from UCLouvain in Belgium. She has over 25 years of experience as in-house patent counsel in industry. Currently, she serves as Associate General Patent Counsel at UCB Biopharma in Belgium, where she leads the IP support for the Research Organization.

Her expertise encompasses defining the overall IP strategy of UCB’s early-stage assets and technologies, patent drafting & prosecution, providing freedom-to-operate opinions, and the negotiation of a variety of agreements. She also closely monitors external IP developments which are relevant to the pharmaceutical industry to ensure the UCB IP strategies remain fit-for-purpose.

Cornelia Keller

VP & General Counsel

Merz Therapeutics

Charles Sermon

Co-Founder, General Counsel & Business Development

Mereo BioPharma

Caroline Stockwell

VP, Head of Legal & Associate General Counsel

Amicus Therapeutics

Andrew Berry

Director, Claims Administration & Payment Integrity

Humana