Don Huddler, Assistant General Counsel, Pharmaceutical Patents at GSK
Don Huddler is an Assistant General Counsel, Pharmaceutical Patents at GSK. In addition to developing patent portfolios for pipeline assets, he is the strategic intellectual property advisor for the Precision Medicine business. Don re-joined GSK as a patent attorney in 2019 after having been a discovery scientist team leader for several years.
Before GSK, Don was an intellectual property associate at an international law firm. Before transitioning to patent law, he was a US Army scientist at the Walter Reed Institute of Research (WRAIR).
Don has a Ph.D. in molecular biology (protein x-ray crystallography) from Princeton University and was a post doc at the University of Michigan Medical School and then a research scientist in the Biophysics Research Division.
Don has been a long-time member of the Benjamin Franklin American Inn of Court, the intellectual property Inn of Court in Philadelphia, and member of the Inn’s board of directors. He is the 2024-2025 Inn President.
