Nora Safa, Phd. Email & Phone Number

San Diego, CA, US

San Diego, California, United States

• Creating “Bizzy Scientist” where we will be sharing research and innovation updates from UC San Diego and its surrounding innovation ecosystem
• A senior manager responsible for managing a comprehensive innovation, IP, and entrepreneurship program for the campus
• Responsible for evaluating a portfolio of life science inventions in various stages of development, tangible research properties, and copyright materials developed at UCSD for their technical utility, commercial… Show.
• Responsible for evaluating a portfolio of life science inventions in various stages of development, tangible research properties, and copyright materials developed at UCSD for their technical utility, commercial.
• Using personal contacts, professional experience and market intelligence, targeting potential licensees, negotiating the terms and conditions for the transactions, and drafting the necessary legal documents to complete.
• A primary point of contact for faculty members and campus researchers, licensees, patent and corporate attorneys, industrial scientists, senior business development executives, entrepreneurs and venture capitalists

San Diego, California, United States

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San Diego, California, United States

• Registered to practice before the US Patent and Trademarks Office (USPTO) in patent cases
• Extensive experience in advising clients on patent prosecution, Freedom to Operate (FTO), and due diligence matters related to life sciences, biotechnology, clean energy, and medical device technologies

Served as a consultant to early-stage life sciences companies and investors on R&D, IP, and Technology Commercialization strategy

San Diego, California, United States

• 1859 was a drug discovery and therapeutics startup/small biotech commercializing an integrated platform for high-throughput screening of million-member DNA-encoded libraries in a microfluidic system. The company also.
• leading Innovation and IP strategy;
• acting as the lead in-house patent practitioner… Show more 1859 was a drug discovery and therapeutics startup/small biotech commercializing an integrated platform for high-throughput screening of million-member.
• acting as the lead in-house patent practitioner building the patent portfolio of the company;
• serving as the primary point of contact for the outside counsel; and
• participating in cross-disciplinary Advanced Research and non-dilutive fundraising activities (SBIR/STTR proposals). Show less

As a multidisciplinary platform integration research scientist, developed and implemented a microfluidic-based, DNA-encoded library (DEL) screening platform for drug discovery from an academic prototype to production stage (seed round to post series A).Generated system data leading to a successful $40m series A fundraising.

• Registered to practice before the US Patents and Trademarks Office (USPTO) in Patent cases
• Extensive experience in patent prosecution, Freedom to Operate (FTO), and due diligence matters related to life sciences, biotechnology, clean energy, and medical device technologies

United States

• Developed a library of fluorescent cell penetrating peptides (CPPs) with enhanced resistance to intracellular degradation, enabling non-invasive, footprint-free cargo delivery into intact cells for therapeutic or.
• Developed an intracellular activity-based reporter of deubiquitinating (DUB) enzyme activity compatible with a variety of high-throughput single cell screening platforms
• Developed a droplet microfluidic platform coupled with a downstream… Show more
• Developed a droplet microfluidic platform coupled with a downstream overhead trapping array for long term dynamic screening of live cells
• Performed a variety of cell-based biochemical assays involving fluorescent CPPs, biochemical and intracellular fluorescent reporters, luminescent nanoparticles, and biocompatible hydrogels for tumor spheroid organ.
• Mentored 11 undergraduate and graduate students, collaborated with 5 external collaborators, co-authored 8 research papers, and presented research at several national and international conferences.

Doctor Of Philosophy (Ph.D.), Chemical And Biomolecular Engineering

Dissertation: Direct quantification of deubiquitinating enzyme activity in single intact cells Recipient: outstanding dissertation award.

Bachelor Of Science (Bsc), Chemical Engineering