Scientifically informed patent prosecution

Amber Majnik facilitates the preparation and prosecution of patent applications related to immunology, epigenetics, genomics, and molecular and cellular biology. She brings over a decade of professional research experience covering areas that include autoimmune disease, neuroimmunology and epigenetic regulation of disease. Her skillset also includes:

• Scientific and regulatory writing
• Project management and laboratory management
• Protocol development
• Oral presentations at various local, national and international conferences

Amber has authored and co-authored numerous peer reviewed manuscripts, book chapters and grant submissions and acted as an invited peer reviewer for scientific journals and grant agencies. Her extensive research and technical writing experience enables her to effectively assist clients in patent drafting and prosecution.

Bar Admissions

Education

• Montana State University Billings (B.S., 2003)
  • Biology

• University of Utah (Postdoctoral Study, with honors, 2010)
  • Neurosurgery, Hematology

• University of Utah (2009)
  • With honors
  • Experimental Pathology Department
  • Dissertation: Role of Nicotinic Acetylcholine Receptor Alpha7 in the Modulation of Skin Inflammation

• Adverse Early Life Environment Induces Anxiety-like Behavior and Increases Expression of FKBP5 mRNA Splice Variants in Mouse Brain. Physiol Genomics
• Adverse Early-Life Environment Impairs Postnatal Lung Development in Mice. Physiol Genomics.
• Adverse maternal environment affects hippocampal HTR2c variant expression and epigenetic characteristics in mouse offspring. Pediatric Research.
• Adverse Maternal Environment Alters MicroRNA-10b-5p Expression and its Epigenetic Profile Concurrently with Impaired Hippocampal Neurogenesis in Male Mouse Hippocampus. Developmental Neuroscience.
• Adverse maternal environment alters Oprl1 variant expression in mouse hippocampus. Anatomical Record
• Adverse Maternal Environment and Postweaning Western Diet Alter Hepatic CD36 Expression and Methylation Concurrent with Nonalcoholic Fatty Liver Disease in Mouse Offspring. Journal of Nutrition.
• Adverse Maternal Environment and Western Diet Impairs Cognitive Function and Alters Hippocampal Glucocorticoid Receptor Promoter Methylation in Male Mice. Physiological Reports
• Adverse Maternal Environment Leads to Cardiac Fibrosis in Adult Male Mice. Birth Defects Research.
• Race in the Social-Epigenomic Regulation of Pre- and Perinatal Development- Chapter 9. Nutritional Epigenomics.