Russell Barron

Mr. Barron joined Extend Biosciences in 2013 after serving on the company’s MassCONNECT team. Mr. Barron’s 40-year law practice has focused on the management of legal affairs and counseling for new companies, corporate governance, and intellectual property counseling and litigation. He has broad technical experience in life sciences, technology, and other areas, with specific knowledge of vitamin D and related compounds. He was most recently with Pepper Hamilton but spent most of his career at Foley and Lardner, where he was a founder of the IP practice and an IP litigation group leader. Mr. Barron received his B.A. in the history of sciences from Princeton University and his J.D. from New York University. He assists part-time with the company’s legal and intellectual property documents, and business and patent strategies. Mr. Barron’s efforts, supported by Kaplan IP Law and Greenburg Traurig, were instrumental in obtaining Track One status, and now issuance, of the company’s multiple patent filings in the US, which are now being prosecuted worldwide.