Chemical / Biotechnology - Selected Staff Profiles

Charlotte Uhlig (Senior Patent Researcher) holds a masters degree (Dipl.-Chem.) of chemistry from the University of Wuppertal. She has a professional track record of 23 years in chemical patent indexing and research. She started her career in industry with IDC (Internationale Dokumentationsgesellschaft für Chemie) indexing patents and literature in IDC databases. She joined the research group of Hoechst AG in 1994. Her research experience covers fields like validity, novelty, patentability, infringement, freedom to operate and state of the art searches in all areas of chemistry, pharmaceuticals and agriculture. She is highly specialized in keyword and structure searches as well as reaction and especially generic structure searches (Markush structures) using STN and Questel databases. Charlotte also possesses skills in structure searching with chemical coding and other coding systems of Derwent.

Susanne Kretschmer, PhD (Patent Researcher), studied Chemistry at the Technical University of Braunschweig, Germany, and holds a Diploma degree and a PhD in Biochemistry and Biotechnology. She was postdoctoral fellow at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Cambridge, MA. She gained her research experience at WIND GmbH (Wissenschaftlicher Informationsdienst) and SVPG GmbH. She was lecturer at the Cologne University of Applied Sciences, Faculty of Information Studies and Communication Sciences for many years. Dr. Kretschmer’s main focus is research in chemistry, biochemistry, biotechnology, molecular pharmacology and molecular biology including biosequence searching using STN (e.g. REGISTRY, DGENE, PCTGEN, USGENE), NCBI, EMBL. Dr. Kretschmer is a part-time employee.

Torsten F. Noll, PhD (Patent Researcher) started his scientific career with a Master’s degree in Pharmaceutical biology and Pharmacology. He then went on to obtain his doctorate in natural products chemistry (organic chemistry) at the University of Würzburg tackling the biosynthesis of fused-ring aromatic polyketides in tissue cultures by means of feeding experiments and subsequent NMR-analysis. He became familiar with the field of patent searching as a co-worker of SVPG, a former division within the Hoechst AG. Torsten experience includes searching STN databases for biomedical keyword searching and thorough patent monitoring. Dr. Noll is a full-time employee working in the office.

Martina Lorey-Radler, PhD (Patent Researcher) has extensive experience in complex patent and literature searches in the fields of chemistry, pharmacy, medicine, agricultural sciences, toxicology, and biotechnology. After her degree in organic chemistry at the University of Würzburg she started as information specialist / patent researcher at Aventis R&T, a former Hoechst company. Dr. Lorey-Radler has experience in chemical structure and reaction searching (including all kinds of hierarchical modes of thinking) on STN (e.g. REGISTRY, BEILSTEIN, MARPAT, CAPLUS, CASREACT, DWPI) and Questel-Orbit (Merged Markush Service, WPIM, PHARM) databases as well as keyword searching using STN databases and databases of other hosts. Dr. Lorey-Radler is a part-time employee.