Gregory Hook, Ph.D., J.D., is a Co-Founder of ALSP Inc. He previously served as a Patent Advisor to Diversa Corporation, San Diego, CA. Earlier Dr. Hook served as a biotechnology patent attorney with the law firm of Campbell & Flores, in San Diego, and a Patent Examiner in the pharmaceutical arts at the United States Patent and Trademark Office, in Crystal City, VA. He also served as Scientist at the Naval Medical Research Institute, in Bethesda, Maryland, a Staff and Senior Staff Fellow at the National Institutes of Health, Bethesda, Maryland, and a Post-doctoral Fellow at the Johns Hopkins University, Baltimore, Maryland. Dr. Hook holds a Ph.D. in Biophysics and a B.A. in Medical Physics from the University of California, Berkeley and a J.D. in the intellectual Property Tract from George Mason University.