Maryanne Trevisan, PhD
(she/her/hers)
Shareholder
| Biotechnology, Co-chair
Overview
Maryanne Trevisan co-chairs the firm's Biotechnology Practice. She works with clients in prosecution and contested matters in a variety of technologies, with a particular focus on regenerative medicine, medical imaging modalities, cancer therapeutics, and nucleic acid sequencing.
Maryanne provides strategic legal counseling to her clients including patentability and freedom-to-operate analyses. She has also been involved in several interferences and oppositions.
For her doctoral work, Maryanne studied the phenotype of adult hematopoietic stem cells using a variety of functional assays. For her post-doctoral work, she studied the hemopoietic defect in mice lacking the Ikaros protein using in vitro embryonic stem (ES) cell differentiation and retroviral expression systems. Maryanne’s law school thesis analyzed the antitrust issues in patent litigation settlements between brand name and generic pharmaceutical companies.
Experience
- Managed patent portfolio of company in phase II/III clinical trial with anti-cancer small molecule therapeutic.
- Established patent portfolio for sequencing start-up company.
- Assisted client in successful interference relating to genotyping.
Activities
- American Intellectual Property Law Association
- Boston Intellectual Property Law Association
Recognition
Maryanne has repeatedly been named a “Life Science Star” by LMG Life Sciences. The LMG Life Sciences guide is based on case evidence and interviews with clients and peers from other law firms. She has also been repeatedly named to the list of Massachusetts Super Lawyers in the field of intellectual property law as well as The Top 100 Women Attorney in Massachusetts. In addition, she has been repeatedly named to The Best Lawyers in America®.
Maryanne was also awarded a Terry Fox Post-Doctoral Fellowship from the National Cancer Institute of Canada to pursue her post-doctoral fellowship at Massachusetts General Hospital. She was also the recipient of a Studentship from the Medical Research Council of Canada, an Ontario Graduate Scholarship, and a University of Toronto Doctoral Scholarship.
While in law school, Maryanne received the Daniel J. Fern Award for graduating first in her class.