Andrew Torrence
Andrew is the Chief Patent Counsel for "Partnerships" where his excellent IP advice impacts on the investments made.
Andrew joined the University of Kansas law faculty in 2005. He is a graduate of Harvard Law School, and received his Ph.D. in Biology from Harvard University in 1997.
In 2003, he was the Hrdy Visiting Professor of Conservation Biology at Harvard, and has taught Biodiversity: Science, Policy, and Law at Harvard from 1999 to 2005. He practiced biotechnology patent law at Fish and Richardson LLC, the world's largest intellectual property law firm, and, prior to joining the School of Law, he has served as in-house Patent Counsel at Inverness Medical Innovations, a global biotechnology company with headquarters in Boston.
His abiding interest in biodiversity science, policy, and law have taken him on research projects to Australia, the South Pacific, the High Arctic, and the Caribbean, and he chairs the Scientific and Creative Board of the Darwin Project, a major biodiversity institution planned for downtown Boston. His research interests include intellectual property, patent law, biotechnology, bioethics, environmental law, biodiversity, and conservation.
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