Dorene Price, Chief IP Counsel, is a patent attorney and head of the Intellectual Property Legal Group at Brookhaven National Laboratory. She received both her BSc and MSc degrees from Binghamton University where she studied chemistry and industrial engineering. Ms. Price completed her MSc degree with thesis while working as staff scientist in an advanced technology and validation group focused on automation of quality control and other analytical test methods at a pharmaceutical company before leaving to switch gears and attend Albany Law School where she received her J.D.  While in law school she worked at the New York State Department of Environmental Conservation, but has spent her more than 20 year legal career in patent law in private practice and as in-house counsel.