Jasper A. Bovenberg (1964, The Netherlands)
Professional:
- 1990-: practicing attorney specializing in Life Sciences:
- drafting and reviewing clinical trial agreements and related privacy issues, marketing authorizations and drug advertising, as well as extensive counseling on technology transfer and university spin-offs, advising universities, biotech start-ups, venture capitalists and multinational pharmaceutical companies
- handling contentious and non-contentious regulatory work for the pharmaceutical and medical devices industry, including the co-ordination of industry-wide litigation involving pricing, and litigation involving reimbursement by national healthcare insurers
- general practice, including court appointments as trustee in bankruptcy, followed by six years in Corporate Finance department, handling cross-border M&A, venture capital transactions and IPO’s
- ‘Recommended Life Science practitioner’, in 2003/2004 edition of Global Counsel 3000
- Admitted to New York (1989), Amsterdam (1990) and Haarlem Bar (2005-present)
- 1989-1990: attorney with Gibson, Dunn & Crutcher in Los Angeles and Washington D.C.
Academic:
- 2005-2008: part-time research fellow Amsterdam Acadamic Medical Centre (AMC) of the University of Amsterdam, dept. of Social Medicine
- 2002-2005: part-time research fellow, sponsored by the NWO Netherlands Genomics Initiative (2005) at Leiden University, under joint program of Faculty of Law and Leiden University Medical Centre (LUMC). Doctorate thesis "Property Rights in Blood, Genes & Data: Naturally Yours?” Leiden 2005.
Extra-curricular:
- Founder and director of Legal Pathways Institute for Health and Bio-law (2007)
- Substitute member of Medical-Ethical Review Board of the Dutch Cancer Institute/NKI-Antoni van Leeuwenhoek Hospital (2006-2008)
- Legal adviser to Human Genome Organization (HUGO) on Statement on Human Genomic Databases (2002-2003)
- Legal adviser to the OECD on ownership and commercialization of Large-scale Human Genetic Research Databases (2003-)
- Legal adviser to the Dutch Royal Academy of Sciences re establishment of Dutch Biobanks (2004)
- Member Privacy Committee of the National Dutch Pathology Archives (PALGA) (2005-)
- Member of Leiden University Medical Centre Program on Societal Aspects of Genomics (2002-)
- Member of Dutch Task Force on Biobanks advising Dutch Minister of Health (co-author of position paper issued September 2004)
- Member of committee advising the Dutch National Research Council (AWT) regarding legal aspects of genomics (1999)
- Member of Organizing Committee for EuropaBio’s first pan-European conference (1997)
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