Michael draws from his extensive research experience and multidisciplinary scientific expertise to assist clients in protecting and managing their intellectual property.
Michael’s practice focuses on patent prosecution in the biotechnology and life science fields, with a particular emphases on protein therapeutics, vaccines and gene editing technologies. A skilled laboratory scientist by training, he led research in biochemistry and molecular biology that provided invaluable insights into protein synthesis, RNA modifications and functional RNA genomics.
Michael’s numerous publications span a wide variety of topics, including protein mistranslation, enzyme substrate selectivity and kinetics, post-translational protein modifications, tRNA biology, high-throughput RNA sequencing, post-transcriptional RNA modifications and microbiome physiology.