Margaret O'Gara
Director of IP
Nanobiotix
Margaret is a French and European patent attorney currently heading IP at a late development stage biotech in Paris, called Nanobiotix.
She started her professional career as a researcher in the pharma industry in the UK and France, before moving into patents in 2004.
Since then she has worked both in-house and in IP firms and spent nearly ten years with Santarelli before taking the IP position at Nanobiotix early 2020. Margaret has considerable experience in all aspects of European patent prosecution, and post grant proceedings, as well as strategies for filing new applications . She is interested in data exclusivity and prolonging the protection of innovative products.
Soumitra Athavale
Researcher
California Institute of Technology
Isabel Pardo
Lead Researcher
Centre for Biological Research, Madrid
Diwakar Shukla
Associate Professor
University of Illinois
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Merck