Dr. Luke Buchanan

Technical Advisor / Trainee for European Patent Attorney

Areas of Specialization

Patent law, European and PCT patent applications, European and international examination proceedings, opposition proceedings, freedom to operate analyses

Languages

English (native speaker), German

TECHNICAL AREAS OF Specialization

Life sciences/Pharma/Biotechnology: Pharmaceuticals, small molecules, gene therapy, vaccines, therapeutic antibodies, biologics, analytical chemistry, proteomics und genomics, RNAi, transgene- und vector technology, stem cell technology, regenerative therapies

REFERENCES

Luke Buchanan comes from New Zealand, where he studied biochemistry, molecular biology and genetics at the University of Canterbury. He was involved as a research assistant in projects on Horizontal Gene Transfer und Biosafety (University of Canterbury, New Zealand) and Molecular Microbiology (AgResearch, New Zealand).

Dr. Buchanan carried out his PhD (Dr. rer. nat.) and Post-doc research at the Max Planck Institute for Molecular Cell Biology and Genetics (MPI-CBG), Dresden, and the Biotechnological Centre of the Technical University of Dresden in the field of Epigenetic Gene Regulation and Proteomics.

He is co-author of research papers published in international peer-reviewed journals in the fields of epigenetic gene regulation, protein-protein interactions and quantitative analysis of posttranslational protein modification using mass spectrometry.