Medical Project

Yingying Liu, Ph.D

**D O’Hara Grace Townhouse 757-***-****

Notre Dame, Indiana 46556 ******@**.***; *************@*****.***

EDUCATION

University of Notre Dame Notre Dame, Indiana

Master of Science in Patent Law

Passed the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office Registration Examination

GPA: 3.95 May 2015

Intellectual Property Law Society, Member

Capstone Project:

Drafted a complete patent application entitled “Therapeutics for Treating Cancer”

Drafted a claim set for the project “Three-Dimensional Model Printing Methods”

Patent application drafting; patent prosecution; patent searching (USPTO, Espacenet, WIPO, Innography and Questel)

Peking University (China’s Top-Rated University) Beijing, China

Ph.D. in Cell Biology

GPA: 3.98 July 2011

Thesis: The Role of the Interaction of Tau and Pacsin1 in Neuronal Morphogenesis

Studied at the International Brain Research Organization (IBRO) Associate School of Neuroscience, Hangzhou, China

Attended the 5th Asian-Pacific Organization for Cell Biology Congress, Beijing, China

Department Volleyball Team

Fuzhou University Fuzhou, China

Bachelor in Biological Engineering

GPA: 3.70 July 2005

Fuzhou University Challenge Cup Business Plan Competition, Class Award Recipient

EXPERIENCE

Office of Technology Transfer at the University of Notre Dame Notre Dame, Indiana

Intern December 2014 – Present

Perform patentability and marketability searches

Conduct technology assessments

Correspond with inventors and outside counsels

Intellectual Property and Entrepreneurship Clinic at the University of Notre Dame Notre Dame, Indiana

Student Intern (USPTO Law School Clinic Certification Pilot Program) January 2015 – May 2015

Interviewed and counseled clients

Performed patentability searches and drafted a patentability opinion letter on a design patent

Converted a provisional patent application to a non-provisional patent application

Eastern Virginia Medical School Norfolk, Virginia

Postdoctoral Fellow September 2011 – June 2014

Researched cancer and genetic cardiac disease

Presented a poster in the 58th Annual Meeting of Biophysical Society, San Francisco, CA

Omecamtiv Mecarbil Modulates the Kinetic and Motile Properties of Porcine β-Cardiac Myosin

Presented a poster in the 57th Annual Meeting of Biophysical Society, Philadelphia, PA

The Effect of Omecamtiv Mecarbil on the Phosphate Dissociation and Motile Properties of the Recombinant Human

β-Cardiac Heavy Meromyosin

Panewell & Partners, LLC Beijing, China

Translator on Patents in Biology and Chemistry Fields November 2010 – June 2012

Translated pharmaceutical, medical and chemistry patents for a Chinese law firm

PUBLICATIONS

Liu Y, White H, Belknap B, Winkelmann D, Forgacs E, Omecamtiv Mecarbil Modulates the Kinetic and Motile

Properties of Porcine β-Cardiac Myosin (accepted by Biochemistry on 2-13-2015)

Liu Y, Lu K, Yu A CH, Li Z, Chen J and Teng J. Pacsin1, a Tau-Interacting Protein, Regulates Axonal Elongation and

Branching by Facilitating Microtubule Instability. J. Biol. Chem. 287:399**-***** (2012)

Wang Q, Chen L, Chen L, Shen B, Liu Y, Chen J, Teng J. The Tau-like Protein In Silkworm (bombyx Mori) Induces

Microtubule Bundle Formation. Frontiers In Bioscience E4, 998-1008 (2012)

LANGUAGE SKILLS

English – Professional fluency in reading, writing and speaking Chinese – Native fluency

INTERESTS

Volleyball

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