David Staknis PhD

David Staknis, Ph.D. is a Senior Vice President and the Director for Fuld + Company’s Global Life Sciences Practice. Prior to joining Fuld, Dr. Staknis was a Senior Analyst and Division Leader at Global Prior Art, Inc., an intellectual property search and consulting firm. In that position, he worked closely with law firms, biotechnology and pharmaceutical companies to support patent litigation and prosecution, perform freedom-to-operate searches, and create intellectual property landscapes. He worked in a variety of fields ranging from polypeptide, nucleic acid and small molecule therapeutic agents, diagnostic systems, drug screening methods and production methods. Prior to that, Dr. Staknis was a technology transfer specialist at Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center where he negotiated Material Transfer Agreements and Confidentiality Disclosure Agreements and was also involved in early stage marketing of BIDMC intellectual property. Dr. Staknis was also a biology instructor at Northeastern University and has fourteen years of bench research experience.