Wen Li Ph.D.
Student Associate
Profile
Wen Li works on patent prosecution in the chemical area.
Before joining the firm, Dr. Wen Li had been working as a senior/principle medicinal chemist in a biopharmaceutical company located in Houston, Texas, where she gained extensive experience in designing and synthesizing small molecule antagonists for GPCRs and Integrin receptors. She earned her Ph.D. in organic chemistry at Texas A&M University. Her research background includes synthesis of unnatural amino acids and macrocyclics, as well as the study of secondary structures of peptidomimetics. Dr. Li is also familiar with peptide chemistry, transistion-metal catalysis chemistry, and NMR analysis technology.