Dr. Nusrat Khaleeli, of counsel at TechLaw, LLP, specializes in representing bioscience, biotechnology, pharmaceutical, and life sciences clients with a focus on patent prosecution and due diligence matters.

Nusrat graduated from Oberlin College with a B.A. in Chemistry and Biochemistry, focusing primarily on protein chemistry. Nusrat also holds a Ph.D. in Chemistry from The Johns Hopins University, where her research included elucidation of the biosynthetic pathway for the Streptomyces natural product, clavulanic acid, a component of a commercially available antibiotic. Research techniques included site-directed mutagenesis, cloning, protein overexpression, purification, characterization, assay development, enzyme substrate synthesis and small molecule purification from fermentation culture. Nusrat has three years experience as a drug discovery research scientist. In industry, she gained expertise in drug target identification, automated liquid handling instrumentation, high throughput screening of small molecule libraries for lead identification and validation. Nusrat has technical expertise in areas ranging from drug discovery research, protein chemistry, small molecules, liquid separations, molecular biology, instrumentation and pharmacogenomics.