Kaufman-shaw Jennifer

Biography

Dr. Kaufman-Shaw, Ph.D., LLB, has been Vice President of Intellectual Property & Legal Affairs at Zymeworks Inc. since August 2014. Dr. Kaufman-Shaw served as Vice President of Intellectual Property at Sirius Genomics Inc. She has over 20 years of scientific legal expertise. She served as Vice President of Patent Counsel at QLT Inc. Prior to joining Zymeworks, she was a Co-Founder of ImStar Therapeutics Inc. and also served as its Vice President, Intellectual Property and Legal Affairs. Dr. Kaufman-Shaw has had the role of intellectual property counsel for numerous licensing, acquisition and joint development transactions and has conducted patent due diligence on over 100 medically-related products and technologies. Prior to becoming in-house counsel, Dr. Kaufman-Shaw served as a lawyer in the Technology Group of an established law firm. She serves as Director of MRM Proteomics Inc. She clerked for the Alberta Court of Queen's Bench and Court of Appeal, articled to the late Honourable Justice J.W. McClung, before being called to the Alberta Bar. She is a registered patent agent and a registered trade mark agent. Dr. Kaufman-Shaw obtained both her PhD in biochemistry and her LLB from the University of Alberta. She graduated from a law school.

Research Interest

biochemistry