Hui-Ju Wu is a Registered Patent Agent with the firm’s Intellectual Property Law Group. She practices in the life sciences area, with an emphasis in the biotechnology, chemical and pharmaceutical fields. Her work covers multiple areas including counseling, opinions and patent prosecution.

With more than 10 years of hands-on experience in molecular biology research, Hui-Ju’s expertise focuses on protein and nucleic acid isolation and analysis, including molecular cloning, DNA sequencing and PCR analysis. She is also proficient in genome mapping and gene cloning technology, including RFLP (Restriction Fragment Length Polymorphism), RAPD (Random Amplification of Polymorphic DNA), CAPS (Cleaved Amplified Polymorphic Sequence), and map-based cloning.

Hui-Ju received her education in Taiwan (B.S. and M.S.) and in France (Ph.D.), and currently a candidate for her J.D. in the U.S. After obtaining her Ph.D. in plant molecular biology, she worked as a postdoctoral research fellow in Waksman Institute (Rutgers University), followed by Boyce Thompson Institute for Plant Research (Cornell University).

During her Ph.D. training, Hui-Ju participated in the worldwide Arabidopsis thaliana genome sequencing program and focused her research on genome organization and genome sequencing. Her research initiatives then concentrated on plant disease resistance using the genomic sequencing technology, which led to the isolation of a viral resistance gene from Arabidopsis thaliana. Following the determination and isolation of the resistance gene, Hui-Ju focused on the study of signal transduction pathways involved in the plant viral resistance. During her extensive research experiences, Hui-Ju authored numerous articles in peer reviewed scientific journals and presented her research in various international and national conferences.