Miriam Siekevitz

Ms. Siekevitz has more than 35 years of experience in science and the biotech industry with legal expertise in corporate, licensing, clinical and commercial matters. Ms. Siekevitz served as Corporate Counsel at PDL BioPharma, Inc., and its successor corporation, Facet Biotech Corporation. Previously, she was an Associate at Heller Ehrman White & McAuliffe LLP and a patent agent, technical consultant and visiting scientist at Cell Genesys, Inc. Prior to that, Ms. Siekevitz was an Assistant Professor in the Department of Microbiology at Mount Sinai School of Medicine in New York. She has 20 scientific publications and is a co-inventor on 4 U.S. patents. Ms. Siekevitz received her B.A. in Biology from the University of Chicago, her Ph.D. in Cell Biology from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology and her J.D. from the Stanford University Law School. She is admitted to practice before the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office and in the State of California.