As a registered Patent Agent before the US Patent and Trademark Office (USPTO), Shovon participates in the prosecution of US and foreign patent applications, carries out due diligence investigations, and evaluates patent portfolios. His intellectual property experience is principally in areas of biochemistry, molecular and cellular biology, recombinant DNA technology, immunology, virology, stem cells, neurobiology, and neurology.
He completed his postdoctoral research with Dr. Samuel Kunes at Harvard University, where his work ushered in a new era of exciting research on the role of small non-coding RNAs in synaptic and behavioral plasticity. This research uncovered a novel biochemical mechanism that regulates synaptic protein synthesis, in which localized components of the RNA Induced Silencing Complex (RISC) modulate synaptic protein synthesis as long-term memory is formed.
While working on his PhD in Cell Biology, his research, under the guidance of Dr. Tony Ip, uncovered a novel regulatory mechanism of neural stem cell development in early Drosophila embryos. He also worked closely and under the direct supervision of Dr. Craig C. Mello, the winner of the Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine in 2006 (for discovery of RNAi). In Dr. Mello’s lab, Shovon investigated genetic determinants of germ cell fate and pluripotency in early C. elegans embryos.
Recognitions & Awards
- Merck Postdoctoral Fellowship Award for Genome Related Research, Harvard University (2006)
- Travel Award by Instituto Juan March de Estudios e Investigaciones, Madrid, Spain (2001)
- Best Graduate Student Speaker Award, Eastern Developmental Biology Meeting, Woods Hole, MA (1999)
As a registered Patent Agent before the US Patent and Trademark Office (USPTO), Shovon participates in the prosecution of US and foreign patent applications, carries out due diligence investigations, and evaluates patent portfolios. His intellectual property experience is principally in areas of biochemistry, molecular and cellular biology, recombinant DNA technology, immunology, virology, stem cells, neurobiology, and neurology.
He completed his postdoctoral research with Dr. Samuel Kunes at Harvard University, where his work ushered in a new era of exciting research on the role of small non-coding RNAs in synaptic and behavioral plasticity. This research uncovered a novel biochemical mechanism that regulates synaptic protein synthesis, in which localized components of the RNA Induced Silencing Complex (RISC) modulate synaptic protein synthesis as long-term memory is formed.
While working on his PhD in Cell Biology, his research, under the guidance of Dr. Tony Ip, uncovered a novel regulatory mechanism of neural stem cell development in early Drosophila embryos. He also worked closely and under the direct supervision of Dr. Craig C. Mello, the winner of the Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine in 2006 (for discovery of RNAi). In Dr. Mello’s lab, Shovon investigated genetic determinants of germ cell fate and pluripotency in early C. elegans embryos.
Recognitions & Awards
- Merck Postdoctoral Fellowship Award for Genome Related Research, Harvard University (2006)
- Travel Award by Instituto Juan March de Estudios e Investigaciones, Madrid, Spain (2001)
- Best Graduate Student Speaker Award, Eastern Developmental Biology Meeting, Woods Hole, MA (1999)