Dorene Price is Chief Intellectual Property Counsel at Brookhaven National Laboratory (BNL). She received both her B.Sc. and M.Sc. degrees from Binghamton University, where she studied chemistry and industrial engineering (at the Watson College of Engineering) respectively. Ms. Price completed her M.Sc. degree with thesis while working as staff scientist in an advanced technology and validation group focused on automating quality control and other analytical test methods at a pharmaceutical company before attending Albany Law School where she received her J.D.  She also has teaching experience (Physics and Calculus) at Broome Community College in her early career, and legal experience at a law firm in Michigan and a cosmetic company in New York before joining BNL.