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LSPN North America Spring 2024

March 2024

HGF are silver sponsors of the LSPN North America Spring event, due to go ahead from the 8th-9th May 2024 at the Sheraton Hotel in Boston, Massachusetts.

This premier event, by Life Sciences Intellectual Property Review, will bring together in-house patent counsel from leading pharmaceutical and biotechnology companies to share their expertise and solutions across an exciting two-day agenda.

Claire Irvine will be hosting the roundtable session ‘IP issues in protecting CRISPR, CAR- T and other immunotherapies’  View the full agenda here.

Partners Kerry Rees, Kate Taylor, and Andrew Wells will also be attending.

We hope to see you there! Find out more and sign up below.

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