Patent Counsel - (Cambridge, MA)

The Position: Sarepta Therapeutics is seeking a Patent Attorney to join its dynamic and collegial Legal team. Reporting to the Director, Sr. Patent Counsel, this person will directly support Sarepta's DMD exon skipping programs across its chemistry platform as well as other disease areas. The successful applicant will directly work on a wide spectrum of global patent preparation & prosecution matters in a fast-paced environment to build and maintain a strong intellectual property portfolio in support of the company's drug discovery, development and commercialization efforts. In addition, the successful applicant will support attorneys in the Legal IP group on transactional and contentious matters. It is highly desired for the successful applicant to have meaningful patent prosecution background in the fields of nucleic acids, oligonucleotides, peptides, gene therapies, small molecules, and/or drug discovery technologies.