Rachna Ram

Rachna Ram focuses her practice on patent preparation and prosecution for clients in the life sciences and biotechnology fields. Rachna has a strong background in molecular biology and biochemistry, as well as IP-related legal experience acquired in-house and in university research settings. Prior to law school, she worked as a legal staff member at a cancer biotechnology company and was an IP analyst and manager at a large biofuels research institute based at UC Berkeley. As a research scientist, she published peer-reviewed articles in journals such as Science, Nature, and Molecular Biology of the Cell related to intracellular protein transport pathways in yeast and metagenomics and metaproteomics analyses of microorganisms in nature.