Representative Experience
- Registered Patent Agent with experience drafting patent applications in diverse research fields, including the areas of pharmaceuticals, biotechnology, nanotechnology, tissue engineering, chemistry, medical devices, photoconductors, environmental monitoring systems and computer software.
- Conducts prior art searches in the areas of biochemistry, organic chemistry, chemistry, pharmaceuticals, biotechnology, materials science, nanotechnology and medical devices.
- Assists with preparation of patentability opinions, invalidity opinions, infringements opinions and freedom to operate opinions in the areas of biochemistry, organic chemistry, chemistry, pharmaceuticals, biotechnology, materials science, nanotechnology and medical devices.
- Physical Chemist with extensive research experience using state-of-the-art biochemical and biophysical techniques to characterize enzyme-substrate (protease and nuclease), protein-protein and protein-DNA interactions.
- Strong experience in the thermodynamic, kinetic, structural and computational methods used to characterize macromolecular recognition and structure-function relationships.
Education
- Carnegie Mellon University, B.S. in Chemistry, 1987
- University of Pittsburgh, Ph.D. in Molecular and Structural Biophysics, 1998
Other
- Admitted to practice before the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office
- Member of the American Association for the Advancement of Science
- Guest lecturer at the University of Pittsburgh; 2006 - present
- Awarded National Science Foundation Cyberinfrastructure Partnership grant of computing time on Teragrid computers (MRAC); 2005
- Guest referee for the European Journal of Biochemistry; 2002, 2004, 2005