OncoSec Medical Inc. Names Sheela Mohan-Peterson As GC

OncoSec Medical Inc. has appointed Sheela Mohan-Peterson, J.D., M.S. to the position of General Counsel and Corporate Secretary. Mohan-Peterson has spent more than 27 years working in the pharmaceutical and biotech industries, most recently as a Senior Patent Counsel with Merck & Co., Inc. She received her bachelor’s degree in biology from Washington University in St. Louis, and her master’s degree in molecular biology from Rutgers University. Ms. Mohan-Peterson began her career in 1986 as a scientist in the Tumor Biology department of Schering-Plough Research Institute in Bloomfield, New Jersey. In 1991, she transferred to the Human Immunology department at DNAX Research Institute, a subsidiary of Schering-Plough, located in Palo Alto, California. After graduating from law school in 1997, she began her career as a patent attorney at Incyte Genomics in Palo Alto, and then as a patent counsel at Roche Bioscience, also in Palo Alto. In 2000, she returned to DNAX as a senior patent counsel and remained there for several years after a merger with Merck.