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Yun-Chia Sophia Chen

Associate

Sophia is an associate in the Intellectual Property Litigation group at Dewey & LeBoeuf's Silicon Valley office. She focuses her practice on matters regarding life sciences and biotechnology.

Sophia has extensive experience in molecular biology, genetic engineering, genomic data mining, chemical target validation and agricultural biotechnology. Sophia holds a Ph.D. in plant molecular genetics from the University of California, Berkeley. Prior to practicing law, Sophia was the lead of Gene Expression Technology group at Monsanto Company, where she oversaw and coordinated molecular and bioinformatic discovery for targeted gene expression. At Monsanto, Sophia also led a product development team and supported regulatory approval, commercial product launch and strategic planning. She then obtained her joint JD/MBA degrees from Northwestern Law and Kellogg with an emphasis on biotechnology and pharmaceutical industry. Sophia is also a coauthor of many scientific publications and co-inventor on two pending patents in the area of regulation of gene expression.

Selected Activities

American Bar Association
American Intellectual Property Law Association
Licensing Executives Society

Education
Northwestern University School of Law, 2008, J.D.
Kellogg School of Management, 2008, M.B.A.
University of California, Berkeley, 1997, Ph.D.
National Taiwan University, 1991, B.S.

Bar Admissions
California

Court Admissions
U.S. Court of Appeals, 9th Circuit
U.S. District Court, Northern District of California
U.S. Patent and Trademark Office

Languages
Mandarin Chinese
Taiwanese

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