| University of New Mexico, Ph.D. | |
| Organic chemistry |
Dr. Robert Silverman joined Concert Pharmaceuticals, Inc. as Vice President and General Counsel in January 2007 with over 20 years legal and scientific experience. Before Concert, he served as Associate General Counsel at Millennium Pharmaceuticals, Inc., where he was primarily responsible for developing and leading the company’s chemical patent practice. Prior to his tenure at Millennium, he was a senior patent attorney at Vertex Pharmaceuticals, Inc. where he played a major role in building its patent department. Before Vertex, Dr. Silverman held positions of increasing responsibility in the law department of FMC Corporation where he became Group Patent Counsel overseeing intellectual property matters for multiple chemical businesses. He was also a senior research chemist at FMC before joining its law department.
