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Janann Y. Ali, Ph.D.
Technology Specialist
Registered Patent Agent
Boston
Dr. Ali's practice focuses on the preparation and prosecution of patent applications in the fields of biotechnology, pharmaceuticals, molecular biology, biochemistry, and immunology. Dr. Ali also conducts patentability, due diligence, and patent landscape investigations, and she assists in the preparation of intellectual property opinions in the life sciences area.
Dr. Ali has nearly a decade of research and teaching experience combined in the life sciences area. She completed her doctoral dissertation under the direction of Mark Biggin at Yale University and Welcome Bender at Harvard Medical School. In her dissertation, she identified multiple pathways of cross-regulation among genes of the Polycomb group family, which function as long-term transcriptional repressors. Her research experience also includes the completion of fellowships conducted at the University of Chicago and awarded by the Ford Foundation and the Pew Charitable Trusts.
Bars and Court Admissions
U.S. Patent & Trademark Office (Agency)
professional / civic involvement
American Intellectual Property Law Association (AIPLA), Member
Boston Patent Law Association (BPLA), Member
American Bar Association (ABA) Law Student Division, Member
publications
Ali, J. Y. and W. Bender, Cross regulation among the Polycomb-Group genes in Drosophila melanogaster, MOLECULAR AND CELLULAR BIOLOGY 24:7737-47 (2004)
Hur, M. W., Laney, J. D., Jeon, S. H., Ali, J., and M. D. Biggin, Zeste maintains repression of Ubx transgenes: Support for a new model of Polycomb repression, DEVELOPMENT 129:1339-43 (2002).
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