Bio: Bryan Wahl

Bryan Wahl, MD, JD is the General Counsel and Head of Business Development at Tarsus Pharmaceuticals, Inc. Bryan has 18 years of legal experience and 23 years of medical experience as both a practicing attorney and physician, respectively. At Tarsus, Bryan has expanded Tarsus’ IP portfolio, led contract negotiation, compliance, and corporate governance legal functions, and legal aspects of public company SEC filings. He also leads business development at Tarsus, including the evaluation of external and internal innovation and pipeline opportunities, out-licensing, and corporate strategy.

Prior to joining Tarsus, Bryan was a Partner at Knobbe Martens, LLP in Irvine, where he focused on intellectual property protection, infringement studies, and due diligence for financings and strategic transactions, specifically with respect to pharmaceutical, biotechnology, and medical device companies and VC funds. He led the development and strategy of IP portfolios from individual inventor and seed rounds through acquisition and IPO, including client M&A and financing transactions cumulatively totaling over $1.5B.

In addition to his law practice, Bryan has continued to practiced inpatient internal medicine since 2002, most recently as a per diem hospitalist with Kaiser Permanente, caring for patients both on hospital wards and in the ICU, including being on the frontline during the COVID pandemic.

Prior to joining Knobbe Martens, Bryan entered medical school after one undergraduate year, and received his medical degree with honors from the University of Hawaii John A. Burns School of Medicine in 1999. He completed an internal medicine residency in the UCLA-affiliated Cedars-Sinai Medical Center program in Los Angeles in 2002, and is board certified in Internal Medicine. Bryan earned his law degree from the University of California, Berkeley School of Law in 2005. In law school, he received three American Jurisprudence Awards, two Prosser Awards, and the Barbee Fellowship, researching conflicts of interest of hospital institutional review boards, and was also a summer extern for the Honorable Ronald T.Y. Moon, Chief Justice of the Hawaii Supreme Court.