Parvathi Kota

WORK HISTORY

EDUCATION

ABOUT PARVATHI KOTA

Parvathi Kota, Ph.D. is a registered patent attorney with an extensive science background. Dr. Kota’s practice focuses on intellectual property transactions, patent portfolio management, preparation and prosecution of U.S. and foreign patent applications, freedom-to-operate opinion work, due diligence, inter partes review, and patent litigation. Dr. Kota has more than fifteen years of research experience in biochemistry, molecular biology, genetic engineering, enzymology, protein chemistry, and biotechnology. She worked as a research scientist in the laboratory of Nobel Laureate Professor Har Gobind Khorana at Massachusetts Institute of Technology, where she studied structure-function relationships in rhodopsin. Dr. Kota’s postdoctoral work with Dr. Richard Dixon focused on the genetic modification of lignin biosynthesis in alfalfa. She identified new substrates for key enzymes in the lignin biosynthesis and proposed a new pathway for alfalfa. Dr. Kota’s doctoral dissertation focused on the purification and regulation of photosynthetic enzymes. Dr. Kota published several articles in peer-reviewed science journals. She has been invited to present her research at several national and international scientific meetings. She also served as a reviewer for the U.S. Department of Agriculture grant applications and for scientific journals. She received several awards for her academic excellence. While at MIT, Dr. Kota taught an advanced undergraduate seminar course on G-protein coupled receptors.