Bethany D. Kois
Bethany D. Kois
With over fifteen years of practical experience in pharmaceutical science and global health research, including Global Health speaking engagements at academic-leadership conferences including Yale, Harvard, and National University of Singapore, Ms. Kois helps clients protect their innovations, profit from their assets, and solve their most complex and challenging problems.
Before joining the firm, Ms. Kois worked as pharmaceutical chemist, a global health researcher, and, most recently, an in-house transactional attorney for PPD (a Thermo-Fisher affiliate) where she was responsible for drafting, negotiating, and handling all aspects of PPD’s service agreements with biotech and biopharma corporations. She has comprehensive knowledge of drug development requirements and industry expectations for pre-clinical, Phase I-IV, laboratory, peri- and post-approval pharmacovigilance, and patient recruitment services which enables her to quickly identify legal risks and provide strategic solutions to her clients.
At Casimir Jones, Ms. Kois provides clients with transactional advice and counsel to support drug and device development and assists with preparing and prosecuting patent applications in the U.S. and foreign countries, patentability assessments, and freedom to operate and patent infringement opinions. She specializes in technology areas including antibodies, biologics, immunoassays, gene therapy, enzymatic assays, biomedical devices, chemicals, and diagnostic and treatment methods.
Professional Experience
Attorney, Casimir Jones, S.C., 2023 – present
Contracts Counsel, PPD, part of Thermo Fisher Scientific, 2021 – 2023
Associate Group Leader, PPD, 2019– 2021
Chemist, Cambrex, 2017 – 2019
Research Director, Health In Harmony, 2015 – 2017
Visiting Fellow, Buchmann Faculty of Law, Tel Aviv University, Tel Aviv, Israel, 2014 – 2015
Global Health Intern, Health In Harmony, 2012 – 2012
Rule of Law Intern, Leiden University, Leiden Netherlands, 2011 – 2012
Chemist, Upsher-Smith Laboratories, Inc., 2007 – 2012
Associate Chemist, P3 Scientific, 2006 – 2007
Assistant Chemist, PPD, 2005 – 2006
Education
Mitchell Hamline College of Law, J.D. 2013
Iowa State University, B.Sc. 2005
Publications / Presentations
Kois, B., Connecting Human & Environmental Health in Indonesia, in International Society for Tropical Foresters (ISTF) pages 16-17 (2016), available at: http://istf.yale.edu/sites/default/files/files/ISTF%20Policy%20Paper_final.pdf last visited Nov 29, 2016.
Kois, B., Discussing the social entrepreneurial movement as a means of provoking normative change in West Kalimantan, Indonesia: An interview with Kinari Webb, Austrian Journal of Southeast Asian Studies, (6)1 (July, 2013).
Kois, B., Westhorp, G., Nababan, H. (2017) Improving human and environmental health: How provision of health care services and training in alternative livelihoods positively influences conservation behavior of citizens living in villages that border Gunung Palung National Park in West Kalimantan, Indonesia. Poster presentation submitted to Planetary Health Alliance Inaugural Annual Conference, Harvard University, Boston, MA., May 2017.
Kois, B., (2017) Can coupling incentive-based systems with legally-protected forest areas enhance human and environmental health outcomes within the global south? Paper presentation submitted to Global Health Symposium, Global Health Institute (GHI), UW School of Medicine and Public Health, Madison, WI., April 2017.
Kois, B., (2017) Improving human & environmental health: How an incentive based mechanism influences conservation behavior of citizens living near Gunung Palung National Park in West Kalimantan, Indonesia. Paper presentation submitted to International Society for Tropical Foresters (ISTF) Conference 2017, Tropical Forests for Sustainable Development: Shaping Our Future with Knowledge from the Field, Yale University, New Haven, CT., January 2017.
Kois, B. (2016) How provision of health care services and training in alternative livelihoods influences conservation behavior of villages bordering Gunung Palung National Park, Kalimantan. Paper presentation submitted to Conservation Asia, Sustainable Landscapes for People, Business, and Biodiversity, National University of Singapore, Singapore, June 2016.
Kois, B. (2016) Investigating the effectiveness of using health care services as a tool for motivating conservation behaviors of villages bordering Gunung Palung National Park, Kalimantan. Paper presentation submitted to International Society for Tropical Foresters (ISTF) Conference 2016, Yale University, New Haven, CT., January 2016.
Admitted
State Bar of Minnesota
State Bar of Wisconsin (pending)
United States Patent and Trademark Office (pending)