Chemical / Biotechnology Staff Profiles

Casey Fowler (Chemical/Biotechnology Technology Group Manager) holds a Master’s degree in Biochemistry from the University of Maryland at College Park. Casey specializes in gene cloning, vector development, HPLC and FPLC chromatographic techniques, NAD metabolism, DNA repair machinery, fusion protein tags, Atomic-Force microscopy, catalytic antibodies, and standard molecular biology methods.  He has conducted patent searches in the biomedical field including many related to pacemakers, heart valves, catheters, stents and various drug delivery devices. As a scientist, he helped to identify a gene involved in NAD+ biosynthetic pathway. Additionally, Casey has experience in chemical and pharmaceutical structure (both exact and generic) searching using STN (e.g. REGISTRY, MARPAT, CAPLUS, CASREACT, DWPI) and biosequence searching using STN (e.g. REGISTRY, DGENE, PCTGENE), NCBI, EMBL.

 

Anatoly L. Mayburd, PhD is a patent researcher with extensive experience as a chemical and biological research scientist, including four years as a post-doctoral Fellow at the National Institutes of Health/National Cancer Institute. He has a Bachelor’s and Master’s degree in Chemical Engineering from the Russian University of Chemical Technology in Moscow and a PhD in Molecular Biology from the University of Illinois in Chicago.  

 

Steven Polansky holds a Master's degree in Biochemistry from the University of Maryland, College Park. His thesis research was focused on investigating the biological function of a bacterial DNA repair enzyme. Steve specializes in the fields of biochemistry, molecular biology, microbiology, genetics, and chemistry.

Alfredo Castro Ibarra, PhD is a researcher with extensive experience acquired while working for several leading research center, biotechnology and pharmaceutical companies in Germany. In addition to a degree in Pharmacy, he holds a degree in Chemistry from the University of Heidelberg, and a PhD in Chemistry, also from the University of Heidelberg. He also holds further degrees and certificates in Information Analysis at the Technical University of Ilmenau in Germany and Certification in Intellectual Property (DL-101) Geneva, Switzerland. Dr. Castro-Ibarra has experience in chemical and pharmaceutical structure (both exact and generic) searching using STN and the databases available on different hosts. He is very knowledgeable in the areas of oncology, gastrointestinal, respiratory, microarrays and medicinal chemistry.

Steven Johnson studied Chemistry for four years at the University of Oxford to obtain a MChem (Hons) Degree including a supplementary subject in molecular aspects of biochemistry and biophysics. He then went on to gain the MSc in Management of Intellectual Property from Queen Mary and Westfield College, University of London. Upon graduating, Steven worked in the chemical search section of RWS Information Ltd where he was made a senior searcher, before leaving to become part of the team at CPA. Steven can conduct patentability and invalidity searches, and also freedom-to-operate searches. He has a good knowledge of patent searching using online databases, such as Chemical Abstracts databases through STN, for keyword and structure searching and end-user databases such as PatBase; as well as non-patent literature material using the collections of the British Library.