Sarah M.E. Gabriele, LLM, MBE is a Research Specialist with the Program on Regulation, Therapeutics, And Law (PORTAL) housed within the Division of Pharmacoepidemiology and Pharmacoeconomics of Brigham and Women’s Hospital and Harvard Medical School. She obtained her law degree from the University of Trento in Italy and an LL.M. from Washington University in St. Louis. She also received a Master of Bioethics from Harvard Medical School. While at Harvard, she was a student fellow with the Petrie-Flom Center for Health Law Policy, Biotechnology, and Bioethics at Harvard Law School. After graduating from law school, she worked at Hogan Lovells in their Milan office, specializing in pharmaceutical patent litigation. Her research and interests focus on the impact of intellectual property law on the availability and prices of medicines as well as the impact of government funding on research and development of drugs.