Patrick O’Brien To Arrowhead Research Corporation As GC

Arrowhead Research Corporation has appointed Patrick O’Brien as General Counsel. O’Brien comes to Arrowhead from Shire where he served as Group Vice President, Legal in Shire’s Boston office. Prior to that, he was Chief Legal Officer for Shire’s regenerative medicine division. O’Brien has also served as Assistant General Counsel for Johnson & Johnson and Vice President, Law of its Centocor Ortho-Biotech business unit, Regulatory Counsel at the U.S. Food and Drug Administration, and as outside counsel to biopharmaceutical high technology companies while engaged in private practice.