https://www.umassmed.edu/mullenlab/

Admitted to Practice USPTO Registration No. 72704PhD BiochemistryExperienced in technology transfer and chemical and biochemical patent law. Earned J.D. at SUNY Buffalo where he graduated with the ABA-BNA Award for Excellence in Intellectual Property Law. Earned a Master of Laws in Intellectual Property Law from The George Washington University Law School. Earned a B.A. in Biochemistry from University of South Florida. Earned a Ph.D. in Biochemistry from the University of Illinois at Champaign-Urbana. Navy Veteran and former satellite technician, exemplifying the term “Sparky,” a term reserved for radiomen coined in World War 2.

Harvard CatalystHarvard Fibrosis Network

https://wguidalab.org/index.htmlIBIS Therapeutics https://ibistx.com/.

Sortilin alternative splicingModulating sortilin to regulate glucose uptake

Keith Westcott Fellow and Ullyot FellowMember Illinois Science Policy GroupFox Family Innovation and Entrepreneurship Certificate. Spring 2017BPS Poster at Quantitative Aspects of Membrane Fusion, Padova, Italy. May 6, 2019 (Travel Award)ASBMB Poster Presentation on Sortilin, Chicago. April 22, 2017 (Travel Award)Graduate Teaching Assistant Fall 2016: TA MCB 450 Introductory BiochemistrySpring 2017: TA MCB 450 Introductory BiochemistrySpring 2018: TA MCB 450 Introductory Biochemistry

6 week legal clerkship in patent prosecution.https://www.idealawyers.com/

Guest lecturer presenting a 3 hour lecture for a graduate school class on Biotechnology patent law and the ethics of patenting genes focusing on the Supreme Court cases of Chakrabarty, Prometheus, and Myriad Genetics. CRLA International Tutor Training Program Certification Certified Tutor, Level 1. Tutored 9 student Veterans in Organic Chemistry, Chemistry, Biochemistry and Biology.

Performed legal, economic, and technical research to determine patentability, marketability, and commercial profitability of innovative University-owned technologies in the computer, electrical, and medical arts under the guidance of Robert Reis, esq.

Performed legal research and drafted opinions under supervision related to veterans’ legal claims for compensation and benefits for service connected medical disabilities. Service Connection claims require searching military, health, and VA records to determine medical causality using medical desk references such as DSM-IV along with 38 CFR to determine status of Veteran’s claims to benefits.

USS Constellation CV-64 Deck Department • 8 month deployment (WESTPAC) to Persian Gulf during Operation Iraqi FreedomPetty Officer 2nd Class Information Systems Technician, USS MT WHITNEY Gaeta, Italy• High Frequency (HF) Ultra Frequency (UHF) Extremely High Frequency (EHF) Operation• Super High Frequency (SHF) Communication Systems Operation• Electronic Communications Systems Operation• Network Installation and Maintenance Operation• Telecommunications Operation