Chantal Francis Edde, Ph.D.

Before joining Morgan Lewis, Chantal was a patent agent at a large national law firm in Philadelphia. She also practiced patent law at another mid-size full-service law firm in Philadelphia.

Prior to becoming a patent agent, Chantal was a postdoctoral fellow at the University of Pennsylvania, where she expanded her scientific knowledge by using genomic technologies to investigate single-cell RNA variability. Her doctoral studies focused on the evolution of molecular function in mammalian neurons. Chantal has co-authored several peer-reviewed journal articles in the fields of neuroscience, molecular biology, computational biology, and population genetics.

Chantal is fluent in French and Arabic.