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Donal M. Kelly
Ph.D., European Trade Mark and Design Attorney
Donal deals primarily with patent issues, across a range of areas. His role addresses the acquisition and enforcement of intellectual property rights on behalf of both individual inventors and large organisations, specifically in the fields of biomedical and biological sciences. He joined FRKelly in 2007.
He has an academic background spanning both sides of the Irish border. Having been awarded an honours degree in Cell Biology and Molecular Genetics from University College Dublin, he then completed a Ph.D. in Molecular Oncology in the Centre for Cancer Research and Cell Biology at the Queen's University of Belfast.
Donal's research focused on the interaction of pro-survival and pro-apoptotic signalling pathways in human cancer, and involved an integrated relationship with the pharmaceutical company AstraZeneca. In particular, the study involved delineating the molecular mechanism underlying the response of human cancer cells to target-selective cancer therapeutics. The findings of this research have been published in a number of high-impact peer-reviewed journals.
Donal has experience in a number of scientific technology areas, including cell culture and animal models; DNA, RNA, and protein isolation; Flow Cytometry; Western Blotting; immunoprecipitation; kinase assays, Real-Time Quantitative PCR (Q-PCR), siRNA; cell transfection; and microarray technology.
Donal is based in our Dublin Office.
