Prior to starting his own law firm, Bart was Vice President, Intellectual Property at Five Prime Therapeutics, a now-public biotechnology company that once was located in Mission Bay. Bart handled intellectual property and agreements at Five Prime and was on the leadership team. He has also served as Senior Intellectual Property Counsel at Geron Corporation and Patent Attorney at Roche Molecular Systems, where he was responsible for a range of patent matters relating to nucleic acid diagnostics. Bart began his career as a lawyer at the intellectual property law firm Finnegan, Henderson after obtaining his J.D. at the University of California, Berkeley. Before shifting his focus to law, Bart was a post-doctoral fellow at the University of Chicago in the laboratory of Dr. Elaine Fuchs. He has a Ph.D. in the Biological Sciences from Carnegie Mellon University and a B.S. in Chemistry from the University of Kansas. He now runs his own law firm.