Gonzalo Merino

Gonzalo Merino, PhD, JD, joined Regeneron in 2013 and now serves as Senior Vice President and Chief Intellectual Property Counsel. He is responsible for protecting Regeneron’s Intellectual Property, including by developing and implementing a comprehensive global IP strategy. Prior to joining Regeneron, Dr. Merino was an Associate General Counsel at Columbia University and a patent attorney at Bryan Cave LLP in New York City. He obtained his JD from Columbia University Law School, where he was a Harlan Fisk Stone Scholar, and his PhD from the Integrated Program in Cellular, Molecular and Biophysical Studies at the Columbia University Graduate School of Arts and Sciences, where he received the Richard C. Parker Award for Outstanding and Innovative Research and a Minority Pre-doctoral Fellowship Award.