Yang Xu
Technical Advisor
Ropes & Gray
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East Palo Alto
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yang.xu@ropesgray.com
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Yang Xu joined Ropes & Gray in 2009 as a technical advisor in the Intellectual Property Group.
Professional Experience
Yang received a Ph.D. in organic chemistry from the Scripps Research Institute in 2007. In Professor Kim D. Janda’s laboratory, Yang's work focused on antibody-catalyzed destruction of methamphetamine. She also developed a small-molecule library strategy for the disruption of protein-protein interactions. Following graduate school, Yang worked as a synthetic medicinal chemist at BioFocus DPI, a Galapagos company, where her research focused on development of new treatments for HIV-associated dementia and rheumatoid arthritis.
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PRACTICES
Intellectual Property
Biotechnology
Chemical
Pharmaceutical
INDUSTRIES
Life Sciences/Pharmaceutical
Education
PhD (Organic Chemistry), The Scripps Research Institute,
2007
MS (Organic Chemistry), University of California, Davis,
2001
BS (Chemistry), Beijing Normal University,
1999
Languages
Mandarin