THOMAS CHEN, a third year student at the University of Virginia School of Law, is the first place winner of the Antitrust Law Section's Ninth Annual Student Writing Competition. His Note, Authorized Generics: A Prescription for Hatch-Waxman Reform, will be published in 93 Va. L. Rev. Issue 2 (forthcoming 2007). Mr. Chen is a member of the Virginia Law Review and Virginia Journal of Law & Technology.

Mr. Chen completed his undergraduate studies at Duke University, where he studied Chemistry and Pharmacology. He completed a master's degree in Biotechnology at John Hopkins University. Upon graduation, Mr. Chen will clerk for the Honorable Alvin A. Schall on the Federal Circuit. He is interested in pursuing a career in patent litigation.

As the top winner in the competition, Mr. Chen will receive an all-expenses-paid trip to Washington, D.C., where he will receive his prize during the ABA Section of Antitrust Law's Spring Meeting, April 18-20, 2007.