Jennifer is an Associate in the Intellectual Property Section of the firm's Boston office, where she prepares and prosecutes U.S. and foreign patent applications for companies and academic institutions. Jennifer works with clients to protect innovations related to small molecule pharmaceuticals and organic chemistry. Her practice also includes validity and infringement opinions, due diligence investigations, and patentability studies.
Jennifer's experience encompasses organic chemistry, combinatorial chemistry, organometallic and medicinal chemistry. Prior to joining Mintz Levin, Jennifer worked at Merck Research Laboratories as a medicinal chemist and then as a scientific liaison within Merck's licensing group. She brings to the firm industrial experience related to negotiating partnership and service agreements as well experience related to designing and preparing new lead compounds.
Jennifer is the author of numerous articles and presentations and is an inventor on several patents. Her academic and professional awards include the Damon Runyon-Walter Winchell Fellowship (Merck Fellow), National Science Foundation Predoctoral Fellow, Eli Lilly Travel Award, the Marvel Prize for Excellence in Undergraduate Research, and the International Order of Foresters Scholarship.
Jennifer is admitted to practice in Massachusetts and before the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office. She received her J.D., cum laude, from Suffolk University (2009), earned a Ph.D. in Organic Chemistry from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (1995), completed post-doctoral studies in Combinatorial Carbohydrate Chemistry at Princeton University (1997), and earned a B.S. in chemistry, magna cum laude, from the University of Illinois (1990). She is member of the Boston Patent Law Association.