Michele shared her exciting career as a scientist and biotech patent attorney career path with aspiring Ph.D. students in the Neuroscience and Cognitive Science Program (NACS) at University of Maryland, College Park on Wednesday, June 3, 2015! This symposium features successful professionals from various fields who pursued “alternative career paths” after their scientific trainings in graduate school. In the session entitled “Path to Non-Academic Careers: Short Stories”, Michele spoke about the transition she made from conducting cancer research at Johns Hopkins School of Medicine, managing the complex patent portfolios at Human Genome Sciences, to opening her own IP law firm.