The Food and Drug Law Institute will honor four outstanding food and drug law professionals with its annual Distinguished Service and Leadership Award: Minnie Baylor-Henry, Alan Bennett, Thomas O. Henteleff and John M. Taylor III.
The honorees will receive their awards at FDLI’s Holiday and Leadership Awards Reception December 12 at The Westin Georgetown in Washington, D.C.
FDLI, founded in 1949, is a non-profit organization that provides a marketplace for discussing food and drug law issues through conferences, publications and member interaction. The scope of FDLI includes food, drugs, animal drugs, biologics, cosmetics, diagnostics, dietary supplements, medical devices and tobacco.
The award, established in 1993, is given to individuals who have a record of sustained service, leadership and contribution to the food and drug law community and/or FDLI; or provided an exceptional contribution to FDLI and/or the food and drug law community, for example, through outstanding writing or scholarship, by developing new legal theories and precedents or engaging in significant activities on behalf of the public interest.
All of this year’s award recipients exemplify those criteria. One is a UConn Honors graduate.
Alan Bennett, Managing Partner of the Ropes & Gray DC office, has advised clients on issues involving pharmaceutical marketing and promotion for more than 25 years. Mr. Bennett counsels clients and represents them at FDA and in Congress on many of the critical issues that affect the pharmaceutical industry. He is a recognized expert on the Hatch-Waxman Act and lifecycle management. Mr. Bennett also has extensive experience in biological products, including the new biosimilars legislation, in food additive approvals, orphan drugs, and in over the counter drugs and the procedures used to switch them from prescription to non-prescription status. He began his legal career in the Office of the General Counsel of the Food and Drug Administration, where he was a trial and appellate lawyer and legal advisor to several FDA bureaus. Subsequently he was legislative assistant to the late Senator Jacob Javits and Special Counsel to the Senate Governmental Affairs Committee, where he played a major role in one of the first medical records privacy initiatives. After leaving the Hill, Mr. Bennett co-founded a food and drug boutique firm that was ultimately known as Bennett, Turner and Coleman, which merged into Ropes & Gray in 2002. He received his law degree from Columbia University School of Law (Harlan Fiske Stone Scholar) and BA, with honors, from the University of Connecticut.
Adapted from PRNewswire