Experience Highlights

Counsel, Cantor Colburn LLP, 2022-present

Associate, Cantor Colburn LLP, 2018-2021

Patent Attorney, Bradley Arant Boult Cummings, LLP, Birmingham, AL, 2015-2018

Project Leader, Creagen Biosciences, Woburn, MA, 2007-2011

Scientist I, GPC Biotech, Waltham, MA, 2006-2007

Contract Chemist, Infinity Pharmaceuticals, Cambridge, MA, 2006

Investigator I, ArQule, Inc., Woburn, MA, 2005-2006

Postdoctoral Research Scientist, University of Mississippi, 2001-2005

Publications

Further Erosion of Patent Protection for Diagnostics: The Federal Circuit Denies En Banc Rehearing in Ariosa Diagnostics, Inc. v. Sequenom, Inc. (co-authored with Alice Martin of Barnes & Thornburg), AIPLA Quarterly Journal, Vol. 44, No. 3 (Summer 2016), pp. 437−458.

Federal Circuit Reduces Certainty – Multilayer Stretch Film Holdings, Inc. v. Berry Plastics Corp., CHEMICAL PRACTICE CHRONICLES, Fall 2016, pp. 16−21.

Methyl-substituted conformationally constrained rexinoid agonists for the retinoid X receptors demonstrate improved efficacy for cancer therapy and prevention, BIOORGANIC & MEDICINAL CHEMISTRY, 22, 178-85 (2014).

Syntheses of Benzo[b]furan-6-carbonitrile and 6-cyanobenzo[b]furan-2-boronic acid pinacol ester, SYNTHETIC COMMUNICATIONS, 43(14), 1974−1979 (2013).

Total syntheses of Epothilones B and D, JOURNAL OF ORGANIC CHEMISTRY, 69 (26), 9269–84 (2004).

Conformationally defined retinoic acid analogues. 5. Large-scale synthesis and mammary cancer chemopreventive activity for (2E,4E,6Z,8E)-8-(3',4'-Dihydro-1'(2'H)-naphthalen-1'-ylidene)-3,7- dimethyl-2,4,6-octatrienoic Acid (9cUAB30), JOURNAL OF MEDICINAL CHEMISTRY, 46 (17), 3766–69 (2003).

9cUAB30, an RXR-specific retinoid, and/or Tamoxifen in the prevention of methylnitrosourea-induced mammary cancers, CANCER LETTERS, 201 (1), 17–24 (2003).

Chemistry Presentations:

Convenient one-pot synthesis of 4-substituted-2,6-dihalopyridines: valuable building blocks for medicinally active heterocycles, Abstracts of Papers, 240TH AM. CHEM. SOC’Y NAT’L MEETING, Boston, MA (2010).

Progress towards the total synthesis of Pseudolaric acid B: a novel antipneumocystic and antifungal natural product, Abstracts of Papers, 228TH AM. CHEM. SOC’Y NAT’L MEETING, Philadelphia, PA (2004).

Total synthesis of Epothilones B and D amenable to large-scale preparation, Abstracts of Papers, 225th AM. CHEM. SOC’Y NAT’L MEETING, New Orleans, LA (2003).

Synthesis of 1-aryl-7-substituted phthalazines as parasite cysteine protease inhibitors, Abstracts of Papers, 225th AM. CHEM. SOC’Y NAT’L MEETING, New Orleans, LA (2003).

Synthesis and breast cancer chemoprevention for UAB30 and analogs, receptor-selective retinoids, Book  of Abstracts, 218th AM. CHEM. SOC’Y NAT’L MEETING, New Orleans, LA (1999).

LEGAL PUBLICATIONS

Further Erosion of Patent Protection for Diagnostics: The Federal Circuit Denies En Banc Rehearing in Ariosa Diagnostics, Inc. v. Sequenom, Inc. (co-authored with Alice Martin of Barnes & Thornburg), AIPLA QUARTERLY JOURNAL, Vol. 44, No. 3 (Summer 2016), pp. 437−458.

Federal Circuit Reduces Certainty – Multilayer Stretch Film Holdings, Inc. v. Berry Plastics Corp., CHEMICAL PRACTICE CHRONICLES, Fall 2016, pp. 16−21.

LEGAL BLOG POSTINGS

You’ll Have To Be More Specific When Crafting That Generic Claim, PATENT 213 (Nov. 9, 2016, 3:59).