James K. Hu
Industry Advisor

James K. Hu currently serves as Associate General Counsel at Martek Biosciences Corp.  At Martek, James focuses on technology and licensing transactions, corporate collaborations, IP matters, regulatory, and merger and acquisitions.  Prior to joining Martek, James was the Director of Legal Affairs of Focus Diagnostics, where he was the chief legal officer of the company and guided the company through three successful acquisitions and ultimate sale of the company to Quest Diagnostics.  Prior to joining Focus, James was a partner of Helios Concepts, where he provided strategic consulting and management services to early-stage biotechnology and information technology companies.  Prior to Helios, James co-founded and served as Executive Vice President and General Counsel of AegiSoft Corp.  James was instrumental in growing Aegisoft from a start-up to a multi-million dollar company and was the company's chief strategist and negotiator in several rounds of private venture financing, international licensing and strategic partnerships and eventually in the sale of the company to RealNetworks, Inc.  Prior to Aegisoft, James was one of the founding employees and served as the Director of Corporate Development for Stem Cell Therapeutics, Inc.  Prior to Stem Cell, James was the Associate Director of Technology Transfer for Temple University focused in life sciences technology and medical devices.   James also held various corporate development and legal positions with Cytogen Corp. and the Cornell Research Foundation.  James earned a J.D. from Syracuse University and a B.S. in Microbiology, Molecular Genetics, and Economics from UCLA.  James currently sits on the Board of the Chinese Biopharmaceutical Association.
 

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