Thuy is expert in patent drafting, patent searches, opinions, and patent analysis in Biotechnology and Pharmaceutical Industries. She specializes in antibacterial microorganisms and Streptomyces species in particular, also bioactive compounds and antibiotics. She is an acknowledged expert in the field of DNA & protein works, DNA analysis, sequencing, gene cloning, DNA mutation, gene inactivation, gene expression, protein purification and analysis.

Prior to joining ACTIP Patent Limited as a patent attorney on the Biotechnology & Pharmaceuticals Team at ACTIP Patent Limited, Ph.D. Thuy was a Senior Faculty Lecturer of Biotechnology at Hanoi Open University. While teaching she mentored students and consulted on the development of patents from Research & Development efforts. During her carrier at the university, Ph.D. Thuy regularly published her scientific research in DNA analysis technology.

Ph.D. Thuy earned her Bachelor of Engineering in Animal and Veterinary Medicine from Vietnam’s Thai Nguyen University in 1994. Her post graduate studies were rewarded with a Master of Biology in Animal Science from Thai Nguyen University in 2003, and a Ph.D. in Molecular Microbiology with a specialization in the Pharmaceutical Engineering of Bioactive compounds and Antibiotics from South Korea’s Sunmoon University in 2007.

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