Corporations and research institutions developing pharmaceuticals count on Anna's research experience and technical skill in preparing and prosecuting patent applications on their behalf.
Anna V. Gromova, Ph.D. assists corporate and university clients in preparing and prosecuting patent applications related to pharmaceutical compounds and formulations, including antibacterial agents, vaccines, and therapeutics; diagnostic and other screening assays; and synthetic compounds.
Anna has broad research experience and skill in synthetic organic chemistry; medicinal chemistry, particularly in multistep synthesis; heterocyclic chemistry; combinatorial chemistry; multicomponent and cascade reactions; and peptide chemistry. She has also published papers on these topics in the Journal of the American Chemical Society, Journal of Organic Chemistry, Synthesis, Journal of Combinatorial Chemistry, Nature Chemical Biology, Journal of Biomolecular Screening, Organic Letters, and Chemical Communications, among others.
Before joining the firm, Anna served as a patent technical professional at another national law firm. She previously worked as a postdoctoral fellow at the University of Rochester Medical Center, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, and Duke University.