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The Jackson Laboratory JAX today announced that Daniel Dan R. Hoag J.D. has been appointed general counsel and corporate secretary. He will assume the post on May 10 2021 and will be based at the organizations Farmington Connecticut campus.Dan will be responsible for ensuring that the Laboratorys activities meet all legal requirements including overseeing compliance and regulatory activities facilitating commercial transactions sponsored research agreements and JAXs intellectual property matters. He will also keep records for the Board of Trustees as corporate secretary. Dan brings over 20 years of broad experience in the not-for-profit and research sectors as in-house counsel said Catherine Katy Longley executive vice president and chief operating officer The Jackson Laboratory. His experience and skills will be valuable assets as the Laboratory continues to grow furthering our groundbreaking research and mission to discover precise genomic solutions for disease and improve human health.Dan joins JAX from The MITRE Corporation in McLean Virginia and Bedford Massachusetts a not-for-profit organization that establishes public-private partnerships and manages federally funded research and development centers. In his role at MITRE he served as associate general counsel and chief privacy official providing support in the health care defense and intelligence aviation civil systems homeland security judiciary and cybersecurity sectors. His career also includes extensive experience with sponsored research and material transfer agreements with multiple agency entities of the Department of Health and Human Services the National Science Foundation and the Department of Defense and providing legal advice on intellectual property international business matters partnerships commercial and government contracts export control technology transfer agreements as well as cyber security and data protection issues.His previous posts include serving as senior counsel at Kronos Incorporated and assistant general counsel at AECOM formally ENSR Corporation. In these positions he handled a wide range of legal issues including employment matters contracts benefits real estate mergers and acquisitions licensing deals litigation and environmental safety.Dan began his legal career as a summer clerk to U.S. Federal District Court Senior Judge Loughlin in Concord New Hampshire and as a law clerk at the Thurgood Marshall Federal Judicial Center in Washington D.C. He is a graduate of the University of Notre Dame and the George Washington University Law School. He serves on the legal counsel committee of the Advanced Cyber Security Center based in Boston Massachusetts. He is also a certified FAA pilot.There are many reasons why Im excited to be joining JAX as general counsel including that it is a truly mission-driven organization Mr. Hoag said of his new role. Im looking forward to getting to know the JAX team and working together to further this organizations commitment to conducting crucial research that makes a difference in peoples lives.
