Patrick O’Brien Named GC Of Arrowhead Research Corporation

Arrowhead Research Corporation announced that it has appointed Patrick O’Brien as General Counsel. In this role, Mr. O’Brien will have overall responsibility to manage all of the Company’s legal matters. 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.