Minxi Rao

Minxi Rao is a Senior Patent Agent at Medler Ferro Woodhouse & Mills PLLC, with a focus on the preparation and prosecution of patent applications in life sciences, chemicals, and biotechnology, along with managing global patent portfolios and coordinating prosecution strategies since March 2017. Prior experience includes roles as a Patent Agent and Technical Specialist after serving as a Graduate Student Researcher in the Chemical Biology Graduate Program at UC Berkeley from August 2010 to December 2016. Minxi Rao's earlier experience includes an Undergraduate Research Assistant position at Duke University, where organic synthesis of vancomycin derivatives was conducted, and as an Amgen Scholar at UC Berkeley, involving the purification and biochemistry of the protein TauD. Academic credentials include a Ph.D. in Chemistry from the University of California, Berkeley, and a B.S. in Chemistry from Duke University.