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31 Biotechnology L. Rep. 1 (2012)

handle is hein.journals/bothnl31 and id is 1 raw text is: Welcome to Our 30th Anniversary Issue and Enhanced Editorial Team By GERRY J. ELMAN Editor-in-Chief, Biotechnology Law Report This issue of Biotechnology Law Report marks our 30th anniversary, having commenced publication at the beginning of 1982, the year after Mary Ann Liebert founded her flagship publication Genetic Engineering News (GEN).1 Later in this issue, you may read my remembrances. I am now delighted to announce the appointment of Christopher M. Holman as the new Executive Editor of BLR. Chris will be ably assisted by attorney Steven J. Zweig in the newly created role of Consulting Editor, and by the continuing efforts of Judith Gunn Bronson as Managing Editor and the many members of the publication staff at Mary Ann Liebert, Inc. Chris is a well-known expert and teacher in biotech- nology law. He has been an associate professor at the University of Missouri-Kansas City School of Law since 2005. His primary research focus lies at the inter- section of intellectual property and biotechnology, and he has taught classes in patent law; intellectual property; food, drug, and biotechnology law; antitrust and com- petition law; drug and medical technology torts; and property. Thus, he is supremely qualified to follow in the footsteps of our former Executive Editor, Bob Bohrer, of the California Western School of Law. Prior to becoming a law professor, Professor Holman served as vice-president of intellectual property and pat- ent counsel at several Silicon Valley biotechnology com- panies and worked as an associate at a major intellectual property law firm. He was also a tenure-track chemistry professor in the California State University system. A native of California, Professor Holman received his Ph.D. in biochemistry and molecular biology from the University of California at Davis and engaged in post- doctoral drug discovery research at Roche Biosciences in Palo Alto, Calif. He then attended law school at UC Berkeley's Boalt Hall, during which time, he was an as- sociate editor for the Berkeley Technology Law Journal and served as a full-time judicial extern in federal court in the Northern District of California. I am also delighted to announce the following addi- tions to our distinguished Editorial Board: A. Christal Sheppard has been an assistant profes- sor at the University of Nebraska College of Law in Lincoln since last Spring, after seven cumulative years as a Counsel to the United States Congress where she focused on intellectual property, science, and competition law. She was instrumental in every bill affecting these matters during her tenure and led many efforts, particular- ly in the areas of patent reform and the operation and funding of the United States Patent and Trademark Office. Professor Sheppard earned M.S. and Ph.D. de- grees in Cellular and Molecular Biology from the Univer- sity of Michigan. After receiving a J.D. from Cornell University Law School and interning with Judge Randall Rader at the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Federal Circuit (CAFC) and with the Executive Office of the President's Office of Science and Technology Policy, she practiced at the law firm of Foley & Lardner and then served in the Office of the General Counsel of the United States Inter- national Trade Commission, working on Section 337 matters and arguing before the CAFC. Shine Tu is an associate professor at the West Vir- ginia University College of Law in Morgantown. He has worked as a research assistant for Judge Richard A. Posner of the United States Court of Appeals for the Seventh Circuit. He was a postdoctoral fellow at the La Jolla Institute for Allergy and Immunology and studied at the College of Veterinary Medicine at Cornell University. Professor Tu received his law de- gree, with honors, from the University of Chicago Law School. He received his Ph.D. from Cornell Uni- versity in pharmacology and cancer cell biology. He also had earned bachelor's degrees in both chemistry and microbiology from the University of Florida. He, too, has practiced with Foley & Lardner. F. Scott Kieff is a professor at The George Wash- ington University Law School and a senior fellow at Stanford University's Hoover Institution, where he directs the Project on Commercializing Innovation. He has served as law clerk to Judge Giles Sutherland Rich of the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Federal 'Now Genetic Engineering and Biotechnology News. (www .genengnews.com). 1 31 Biotechnology Law Report 1 Number 1, 2012 © Mary Ann Liebert, Inc. DOI: 10.1089/bir.2012.9945 Welcome

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