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Brett A. Schweers, Ph.D.
Technical Advisor
Email. bschweers@mcandrews-ip.com
Tel. (312) 775-8037
Education
University of Houston, B.S., Biology (1996)
Rice University, Ph.D., Biochemistry and Cell Biology (2002)
St. Jude Children’s Research Hospital, Post-doctoral Fellow
Professional Experience
Prior to joining McAndrews, Held, and Malloy Ltd as a technical specialist, Dr. Schweers has developed a strong background in a wide variety of the biological sciences and authored many peer-reviewed articles in the fields of genetics, neuroscience, developmental biology, cancer biology, and forensic biology. Brett’s practice is concentrated on patent prosecution and litigation support in the biological sciences and biotechnology.
Brett earned his Ph.D. in Biochemistry and Cell Biology from Rice University in 2002. His doctoral research project focused on identifying novel genes that function to regulate neuronal excitability at the Drosophila neuro-muscular junction. Dr. Schweers discovered that a previously identified translational regulation gene, pumilio, plays an important role in the maintenance of Drosophila neuronal excitability.
During his postdoctoral fellowship at St. Jude Children’s Research Hospital, Brett focused his studies on the developmental and disease models of the mouse retina and retinoblastoma. He worked to improve the pre-clinical models available to retinoblastoma researchers by developing the first retinoblastoma knockout mouse model and mouse retinoblastoma cell line. Brett also investigated novel combinatorial chemotherapy treatments for retinoblastoma and translated his findings into a pre-clinical trial. Additionally, he identified regulatory pathways that control proliferation and differentiation in mouse retinal progenitor cells and determined that reciprocal compensation protects mice, but not humans, from developmental tumors of the retina.
Dr. Schweers has also worked as a Research and Development scientist at Independent Forensics where he developed confirmatory tests for the identification of human body fluids from stains encountered at crime scenes. These novel tests improved the state-of-art available to forensic scientists and are currently being utilized in crime labs globally.
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