Expert witness and consultant for intellectual property cases in the chemical and life sciences.

Expert in organic synthesis, natural products chemistry, mechanistic enzymology, pest control agents, termite biology, insect and mammalian pheromone biochemistry, insect hormone biochemistry, mammalian and insect steroid metabolism, and photoaffinity labeling and intracellular visualization. Chemical biology of phosphoinositide and lysophosphatidic acid signaling; the chemistry of hyaluronic acid and development of hyaluronic acid derived biomaterials for wound repair, cell culture, tissue engineering. Discovery of anti-cancer, cholesterol-lowering, and anti-inflammatory drugs.

Specialties

• Chemistry & Chemicals
• Pharmaceutical Research

Subpecialties

• drug discovery
• natural products chemistry
• termite control
• organic synthesis
• lipid metabolism
• sterol metabolism
• fatty acid
• phospholipid
• anti-cancer drug
• cholesterol
• hyaluronic acid
• polymers
• insect pheromone
• hormone biochemistry
• biomaterials
• regenerative medicine
• intellectual property