Regina Voegeli holds a Diploma in Biology from the University of Bochum, Germany (1985), a PhD degree in Biochemistry/Molecular Biology from the University of Kentucky, USA (1989) and a Habilitation from the University of Basel (1997). She then switched to the Intellectual Property field and became European Patent Attorney (2002) and Swiss Patent Attorney (2012). She worked as in-house patent attorney for Syngenta, Novartis and Bristol Myers Squibb. For Novartis she led the IP Departments for various Business Units as well as the regional Research Units in Europe and China. For Bristol Myers Squibb she established the first IP Department outside of the USA.