Dr. Edith Pierre-Jerome focuses her practice on patent drafting and prosecution in areas related to molecular and cellular biology, biochemistry, microbiology, and plant genetics.
Edith has more than 10 years of experience as a plant molecular biologist investigating gene regulation. Prior to joining MoFo, she was an HHMI Postdoctoral Research Fellow at Duke University in the lab of Dr. Philip Benfey. She was awarded a postdoctoral fellowship from the Life Sciences Research Foundation for her creative and innovative research in the nascent field of plant synthetic biology.