Claire Devine
Associate
BSc, PhD
Claire enjoys working closely with clients to help protect their biotech-related inventions.
As a patent attorney Claire has worked with a range of clients in the biotechnology and pharmaceutical areas, on applications related to a broad range of technologies, including antibodies, industrial biotechnology, gene therapies, RNA therapies, new chemical entities and drug repurposing.
Claire has gained experience in drafting and prosecution of patents along with oppositions at the EPO and providing FTO assessments.
After studying biochemistry at the University of Leeds, Claire went on to complete a PhD in structural molecular biology. Her work focused using non-canonical amino acids to engineer novel enzymes with altered substrate specificity. Through her PhD Claire gained experience in molecular biology, enzymology, X-ray crystallography and organic chemistry.
Before joining the intellectual property profession, she worked as a post-doctoral researcher in the field of protein engineering and synthetic biology. During both her PhD and post-doctoral fellowship Claire published her work in a number of peer reviewed journals.
AREAS OF PRACTICE IN PATENTS:
- Agriscience
- AI and Machine Learning in drug discovery
- Antibodies
- Anti-infectives
- Bacteriotherapy and microbiome
- Bioinformatics
- Biological deposits
- Biologics
- Biosensors
- Cell therapies
- Diagnostic methods and tools
- Fermentation
- Immunotherapy
- Industrial biotechnology
- Medical devices
- Medical treatment regimes
- Microbiology
- Molecular biology
- Gene editing
- Gene therapy
- Genetic engineering
- Genetically modified organisms
- Genomics
- Immunology
- Novel active pharmaceutical ingredients (APIs)
- Oncology
- Personalised medicine
- Pharmaceutical packaging
- Pharmaceuticals
- Plant science
- Protein biochemistry
- Regenerative medicine
- RNA interference
- Stem cells
- Supplementary Protection Certificates (SPCs)
- Vaccines
- Virology
