General Counsel
As General Counsel for Fox Chase Cancer Center, Jerome Maddox oversees the legal and governance functions for the center, including corporate secretarial matters, major contracts and transactions, regulatory compliance, litigation, legal support of research, intellectual property, clinical trials and affiliations with commercial partners, and medical staff and patient care matters.
Maddox joined Fox Chase and Temple Health after serving as Vice President of Global Commercial and Public Policy in the legal department at Moderna in Cambridge, Massachusetts. At Moderna, he was the global commercial lead for the negotiation supply agreements for Moderna’s COVID-19 vaccine and crafted agreements with the European Union, GAVI, Japan, Australia, UNICEF, Colombia, and the United Nations, among others.
Prior to his role at Moderna, he had roles of increasing responsibility at GlaxoSmithKline in Philadelphia and Brussels, including as Vice President, Legal Operations for Global and U.S. Vaccines and as Senior Counsel for R&D and Global Legal Operations – Oncology.
Maddox has also held previous roles at Aramark Corporation as an Assistant General Counsel and as an associate in the antitrust practice group at Dechert LLP in Philadelphia. He has extensive experience in commercialization, research and development, sponsored research, and clinical trials.
A long-time resident of Philadelphia, Maddox currently serves as a board member for the Free Library of Philadelphia and is co-president of the Philadelphia Diversity Law Group.
Maddox earned his law degree, cum laude, from the Temple University Beasley School of Law. Prior to attending law school, he earned a doctorate in political science at Harvard University, where he also earned his bachelor’s degree. He has also held tenure-track positions in the political science departments at Stanford University and the University of Pennsylvania.
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