Influenza Genome Contributors
Co-Authors
Carol Nottenburg
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Cougar Patent Law[Close]Carol Nottenburg
Carol holds a Ph.D. in Genetics from Stanford University and a J.D. magna cum laude from University of Puget Sound (now Seattle University) School of Law. She was a biomedical scientist in the academic world for many years before earning her law degree. Her legal focus is patents and their strategic integration with business goals.
In private law practice, she often counselled clients on freedom to operate issues and saw the need for more pragmatic learning tools about patents. Carol was the Director of Intellectual Property and Chief Legal Officer for CAMBIA until 2004 and oversaw the creation of the CAMBIA IP Resource.
She has now returned to private practice as principal of Cougar Patent Law (www.cougarlaw.com) and is retained as a consultant for CAMBIA.
Kerry Fluhr
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CAMBIA[Close]Kerry Fluhr
Kerry obtained a B.A. in Biochemistry from Ithaca College, followed by a Ph.D. in Biological Chemistry from the University of Michigan, where her research focus was in the area of mechanistic enzymology.
Following graduate school, she completed a postdoctoral fellowship at the University of Washington, where she studied Type III-secreted exotoxins in gram-negative bacteria. Kerry is also a USPTO-registered Patent Agent, and prior to joining CAMBIA, she worked for several years at a Seattle-based law firm. Her work involved the preparation, prosecution, and analysis of patents and patent applications relating to biotechnology and medical devices.
As a patent analyst at CAMBIA, Kerry focuses on patent landscapes, patent tutorials, and other IP-related projects.
Richard Jefferson
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CAMBIA[Close]Richard Jefferson
Richard obtained a PhD in Molecular Biology at the University of Colorado, followed by an NIH fellowship at the Plant Breeding Institute in Cambridge where he was responsible for creating and distributing amongst the most widely cited and licensed plant biotechnologies. CAMBIA, an international non-profit institute based in Australia was founded in 1991 and is dedicated to development of tools and enabling technologies to promote equitable life sciences-enabled innovation worldwide.
The CAMBIA BiOS Initiative (www.bios.net) - the biological open source movement is an integrated response to increasing science and technology complexity, patent thickets and innovation system inefficiencies. As part of this work, CAMBIA created the Patent Lens, (www.patentlens.net), an independent, public-good global resource for increasing patent transparency.
Richard has worked and taught extensively in the developing world, supporting the Rockefeller Foundation's biotechnology network for over ten years, and has worked as senior staff for the FAO, and consultant for other UN Agencies. He has been profiled in media including The Economist, Newsweek, Nature Biotechnology and Red Herring. CAMBIA's work has recently featured in cover editorials in most major life sciences journals.
In 2003 he was named by Scientific American to the List of the World's 50 most influential technologists, cited as the World Research Leader for 2003 for Economic Development. Richard is an Outstanding Social Entrepreneur of the Schwab Foundation, for which is a regular panelist at the Davos meetings of the World Economic Forum.
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Contributors
Wei Yang
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CAMBIA[Close]Wei Yang
Wei is originally from China, where he obtained his B.Sc degree in biochemistry from Wuhan University. He worked at China National Rice Research Institute (CNRRI) as a research scientist before joining CAMBIA in 1996 and obtained a PhD in plant molecular biology from the Research School of Biological Sciences, Australian National University.
Wei's PhD work on apomixis is shown in the BioForge apomixis project and is available to use under a BiOS license. He then worked as a Research Scientist at CAMBIA on Arabidopsis transgenomics.
Wei has now shifted focus from scientific research to intellectual property and is working with the IP group in biotechnology-related patent analysis and assisting in Chinese-related IP issues.
Kerry Mills
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CAMBIA[Close]Kerry Mills
Kerry studied for her BA and BSc at ANU, completing her honours year working on HIV at the John Curtin School of Medical Research in 1996. She then moved to Melbourne for her PhD at the Walter and Eliza Hall Institute (WEHI), studying surface proteins of the malaria parasite, Plasmodium falciparum.
In 2003, she moved to Heidelberg, Germany, where she studied the earliest infection events of the Hepatitis B virus. She has now returned to her home town to work with CAMBIA.
Technical Team
Neil Bacon
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CAMBIA[Close]Neil Bacon
Neil is from Hamilton, New Zealand, where he caught a B.Sc (Phys) at Waikato Uni. He did a short stint of seismic surveying in the Bass Strait with Esso and enjoyed a few stormy days of seas rougher than he imagined possible. He worked at the CSIRO Division of Fossil Fuels and did a part-time M.Sc. (Phys) at the UNSW.
Since then he's been doing IT work, initially embedded engineering applications and telecommunications and finally more general IT, in the UK, NZ, Belgium and Australia. Neil moved back to Australia from Belgium to be warm and live near a nice surf beach, but something went wrong with the plan and he ended up in Canberra - oh well, it's great for cycling. Neil has worked extensively on CAMBIA Sequence Software
Nick dos Remedios
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CAMBIA[Close]Nick dos Remedios
Dr. dos Remedios is originally from Sydney, Australia, where he completed a B.Sc (Hons) in biochemistry & genetics and a Ph.D. in molecular immunology. Rather than predictably commencing a post-doc in his academic field, he instead commenced working for a local software company, specialising in expert systems for the airline industry. He joined the Informatics Team in early 2001. Some of his roles include programming web applications in Perl and Java, and managing the continual influx of patent data that requires processing for the searchable patent database.
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