Candace Summerford

Candace Summerford combines her scientific expertise with over 19 years of experience in patent law. Prior to joining AskBio in 2018, she spent 15 years at Nixon Peabody, LLP practicing in Intellectual Property Counseling and Transactions, and prior to that she was at Palmer and Dodge, LLP. She has prosecuted and managed extensive worldwide portfolios in the fields of tissue engineering, stem cells, biomaterial scaffolds and gene therapy. Her experience also includes performing due diligence reviews and freedom-to-operate analyses in the areas of RNA interference, gene therapy, orphan disease therapeutics, stem cell therapies and gene delivery, including lentivirus, AAV and HSV vectors.