Sara Sims, Ph.D.

Before becoming a patent agent, Sara earned her Ph.D. in biochemistry and molecular biology from Johns Hopkins University, where she worked in a yeast genetics lab to characterize the function and regulation of a pair of novel proteins as potential antifungal drug targets. She then completed a postdoctoral fellowship in the Genetics Department at Harvard University, where she received a Ruth L. Kirschstein Postdoctoral Fellowship from the National Institutes of Health. While in her postdoc, Sara used combined genetic, molecular biology, cytology, and biochemistry techniques to gain insight into the roles of histone-modifying enzymes in promoting accurate meiotic cell division in C. elegans.

Prior to joining Morgan Lewis, Sara was a patent agent at a Philadelphia IP boutique firm. She also worked as a patent agent at another full-service law firm in Philadelphia. She has co-authored several peer-reviewed journal articles in the fields of genetics, molecular biology, and biochemistry.