About Jim

Jim is a seasoned transactional attorney with extensive experience structuring, negotiating and executing all manner of complex IP, technology and R&D-related agreements. From 2019 to 2025, Jim was Vice President in the legal group at Sana Biotechnology, where he was responsible for the company’s strategic and technology transactions for the first six years of the company’s operations. Prior to Sana, Jim held a similar transactional role for three years as VP at Juno Therapeutics, and at Celgene Corporation following its acquisition of Juno. He spent the first five years of his legal career in the Life Sciences and IP Transactions practice groups at Ropes & Gray in Boston, following a federal clerkship for the Eastern District of Pennsylvania in Philadelphia. Prior to graduate school, Jim directed a high-risk clinical trial institutional review board (IRB) at the University of Pennsylvania, and he managed a clinical trial program at the University of Utah Department of Neurology. Jim’s undergraduate and postgraduate work in both neuroscience and bioethics has been published in multiple leading journals and encyclopedic volumes (available upon request). He lives in Wenham, MA with his wife and four young children. Like his friend and business partner Seth, Jim grew up in Concord, New Hampshire.