Yuefen (Jennifer) Zhou, PhD

Jennifer provides patent services for a wide array of life sciences and medical device companies in the chemistry arts, including application drafting and prosecution, freedom to operate analyses, non-infringement and invalidity opinions, and international portfolio management. With a PhD in organic chemistry and a postdoctoral fellowship in chemistry, she brings clients specialization in medicinal chemistry and drug discovery research in anti-neurodegenerative disorders, anti-HCV, antibacterial, anti-cancer and women’s health. Her chemistry expertise includes medicinal, organic, organometallic, polymer, surface, and combinatorial chemistry.

Prior to Jennifer’s patent prosecution career, she spent 10 years as a medicinal chemist at a number of biotech and pharmaceutical companies in drug discovery research on several biological targets. She has served as the director of a chemistry department, a project leader of an interdisciplinary drug discovery research team, and as a lead medicinal chemist on four drug discovery programs that resulted in clinical development candidates. She has extensive experience in structure-based ligand design for drug discovery research. Jennifer has published 42 peer-reviewed papers in scientific journals, and speaks fluent Chinese.