Jennifer Zhou, Ph.D.

Dr. Jennifer Zhou is a patent agent in the Irvine office of Maschoff Brennan,
where she focuses on intellectual property (IP) law. Her practice has a strong life
science focus, and includes patent application drafting and prosecution, freedom
to operate analyses, non-infringement and invalidity opinion in the chemistry
art.
Prior to joining the firm, Dr. Zhou worked as a Patent Agent at K&L Gates
practicing patent law in life science and technology. Dr. Zhou has more
than 10 years of medicinal chemistry experience at a number of biotech and
pharmaceutical companies, in drug discovery research on several biological
targets.
She has various management roles such as Director of Chemistry Department,
Project Leader of a 30+ member interdisciplinary drug discovery research team,
and was a lead medicinal chemist on four drug discovery programs which
resulted in clinical development candidates. She has extensive experience
in structure-based ligand design for drug discovery
research. Dr. Zhou has published 42 peer reviewed
papers in scientific journals, and speaks fluent Chinese.