Lance K. Ishimoto, J.D., Ph.D. has been our senior vice president of intellectual property since February 2004. Dr. Ishimoto served as our vice president of intellectual property from July 1998 to February 2004. From 1994 to July 1998, Dr. Ishimoto was a biotechnology patent attorney at the Palo Alto, California office of the law firm of Pennie & Edmonds LLP. Dr. Ishimoto received his B.A. and Ph.D. from the University of California at Los Angeles, where he studied molecular mechanisms of virus assembly and the regulation of virus ultrastructure. After receiving his Ph.D., Dr. Ishimoto served as a National Institutes of Health postdoctoral fellow at the University of Washington School of Medicine. He received his J.D. from Stanford University. |