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Nabeela Rasheed, Ph.D.
Shareholder

Email. nrasheed@mcandrews-ip.com
Tel. (312) 775-8288

Education
Illinois Institute of Technology/Chicago-Kent College of Law (JD) Order of the Coif
University of Liverpool (PhD, Biochemistry)
University of Wales, Swansea (BSc, Biochemistry)

Bar Admissions
Admitted to practice in Illinois. Registered to practice before the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office.

Professional Experience
Nabeela Rasheed, Ph.D., is a shareholder at McAndrews, Held & Malloy.  Her practice concentrates on the acquisition and enforcement of intellectual property rights.

Dr. Rasheed advises clients in all areas of global intellectual property portfolio management, including patent prosecution, validity and infringement opinions, patent opposition proceedings, reexamination, protests, and interferences.  In addition, as a trusted counselor to a wide variety of biotechnology companies, Dr. Rasheed advises clients in a variety of due diligence transactions.  She has also served as an independent consultant between parties on inventorship and priority of invention issues.

In her patent practice, Dr. Rasheed focuses on biotechnology and traditional pharmaceutical and medical technologies, including recombinant proteins and methods of production and use of such compositions, humanized antibodies, diagnostics, and therapeutic formulations.  Representative examples of her technology experience include: growth factors; chemokines; enzymes, macrophage and neutrophil products; vaccines; bacterial antigens; small molecule modifications of macromolecules; processes and compositions for the recombinant production of proteins; diagnostic and therapeutic methods for disorders such as cancer, infection, autoimmune disease, Alzheimer’s disease, diabetes, high throughput screening assays, immunotherapeutics, including vaccines, therapeutic formulations, including aqueous compositions, lyophilized compositions, hydrogels and transdermal delivery.

Being at the forefront of biochemical science, Dr. Rasheed has been a frequent speaker at various biotech and pharmaceutical conferences across the country and overseas.  Dr. Rasheed has also taken up various committee positions with the Association of University Technology Managers (AUTM).

Dr. Rasheed graduated in 2002 from Illinois Institute of Technology/Chicago-Kent College of Law, order of the coif.  Dr. Rasheed obtained a B.Sc. in Biochemistry, with honors, from the University of Wales, Swansea (United Kingdom, 1989) and completed her Ph.D. in Biochemistry at the University of Liverpool (United Kingdom, 1993).  After her graduate degree, she pursued two post-doctoral fellowships before making the switch to patent law.














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