Ada Wong

Ada’s mission at InterVenn is to develop the global intellectual property strategy for our products and platform technology and adapt it to meet the needs of our rapidly growing company. Having served in-house and in private practice, Ms. Wong has over 16 years of experience providing IP counseling and managing portfolios at different stages of the product development continuum. Prior to joining us in June of 2021, Ada was the Senior IP Counsel at Jazz Pharmaceuticals, where she devised and implemented global IP strategy for marketed drugs and clinical-phase products in the oncology and neuroscience space and spearheaded IP diligence for complex transactions. Before assuming her position at Jazz, Ms. Wong was a Senior Patent Counsel at Johnson & Johnson, where she supported the Infectious Disease therapeutic area, Computational Science and Emerging Science groups, and led IP diligence on multiple deals valued in the billion to hundred million dollar range.

Previously, she was a member of the IP and Licensing team at Salix Pharmaceuticals, where she actively engaged in prosecution to protect a diverse product lineup. Early in her career, Ms. Wong devoted 9 years to private practice at Morgan Lewis, specializing in patent prosecution and counseling clients in the biotech and pharmaceutical industries. Ada has a J.D. from Santa Clara University, an M.S. in Biotechnology with an emphasis in Bioinformatics from Johns Hopkins University, and a B.S. in Molecular Cell Biology from U.C. Berkeley. A firm believer in personalized healthcare, Ms. Wong is passionate in her commitment to protect the innovation that makes early detection possible.