Professionals

Shelley Danek, Ph.D., is involved in patent prosecution, concentrating in chemical and biochemical as well as nanotechnology applications.  Dr. Danek also is involved in preparing opinions and in counseling clients in intellectual property portfolio management and strategy.  The technical focus of the representative applications that she has worked on includes lithography, polymers, materials, semi-conductors, pharmaceutical formulations, cosmetic formulations, biological molecular detection and analysis, and synthesis of organic molecules and inorganic complexes.

Prior to joining the firm, Dr. Danek was a postdoctoral scholar at Stanford University, researching structural analogs of RNA bases for use in RNA interference applications. She received her Ph.D. in Chemistry from the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill in 2003. Her doctoral research included pursuing the total synthesis of natural products and evaluating new assay techniques for identification of novel catalysts using combinatorial chemistry. Dr. Danek also holds a B.S. in Chemistry and a B.A. in International Relations, both from American  University in Washington, D.C.