Bernadette Hawkins

• Associate

  BSc (Hons) PhD MIP
  Patent and Trade Marks Attorney,
  Australia and New Zealand

  Bernadette holds a Bachelor of Science with Honours, majoring in organic chemistry, a PhD from the Victorian College of Pharmacy and a Master of Industrial Property from the University of Technology, Sydney.

  Her doctoral studies were followed by three years as a Post-doctoral Researcher at the University of Leicester in the United Kingdom and five years at the University of Queensland undertaking structural studies of macromolecules by nuclear magnetic resonance.  This research has given Bernadette a broad range of technical experience across chemical and biochemical subject matter.  Prior to joining Cullens in 2007, Bernadette spent several years as a Patent Examiner at the Australian Patent Office.

  Professional Affiliations

  • Member, Intellectual Property Society of Australia and New Zealand (IPSANZ)
  • Member, AusBiotech (the Australian Biotechnology Association) (ABA)
• • Member, Woman in Technology (WIT)

  Experience

  • Post-doctoral research scientist, Biological NMR Centre, University of Leicester (protein expression and purification; use of nuclear magnetic resonance and surface plasmon resonance to study protein-protein interactions)
  • Post-doctoral research scientist, Department of Biochemistry and Molecular Biology, University of Queensland (production and purification of RNA for NMR studies)
  • Research co-ordinator, Therapeutics Research Group, School of Medicine, University of Queensland

  Expertise

  • Organic chemistry
  • Pharmaceuticals
  • Protein and nucleic acid chemistry
  • Immunology

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  Email  b.hawkins@cullens.com.au

  Phone  +61 7 3011 5555

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