Headrick

Tatiana Headrick, Ph.D.

Associate
Registered Patent Attorney
Boston

I work with clients to develop and maintain their patent portfolios in the pharmaceutical, chemical, and clean energy industries.

Tatiana is a patent attorney with over 15 years of academic and industrial research experience in pharmaceutical, chemical, and energy industries.  She helps her clients protect and leverage their intellectual property assets by preparing and prosecuting U.S. and foreign patent applications,  conducting due diligence, patentability, and freedom-to-operate analyses, and performing competitive intelligence and market research.  

Tatiana’s background in medicinal chemistry stems from work at the Center for the Development of Therapeutics at the Broad Institute of MIT and Harvard, where she was a member of the NIH MLPCN initiative. During her Ph.D. research in Professor Richard R. Schrock’s group at MIT and postdoctoral research at Boston College under the guidance of Professor Amir H. Hoveyda she designed catalysts for asymmetric synthesis of small molecules.  Tatiana also has industrial research experience in developing materials for catalytic and polymer applications, such as catalysts for automotive industry, catalysts for oil refinery processes, and polymeric materials for gas separation membranes. 

Education

  • Suffolk University Law School, Doctor of Law
  • Boston College, Postdoctoral Fellowship, 2010
  • Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT), Ph.D., Chemistry, 2007
  • St. Petersburg State University (Russia), B.S., Chemistry, 2002

Bar and Court Admissions

BAR ADMISSIONS
  • U.S. Patent & Trademark Office (Agency)
  • Massachusetts

Languages

  • Russian

Experience

Patent prosecution counsel for companies and research universities in the following areas
  • pharmaceutical development, methods of treatment, formulations, salt and crystal forms, prodrugs, combination therapies, drug delivery technology
  • nutraceuticals
  • cannabis
  • industrial processes for production of chemicals
  • polymer development and applications in areas from drug delivery to electronics 
  • materials for solar and fuel cells, batteries, and methods/processes for their production, purification, and optimization

Other Publications

  • Headrick, T. et al., “Exo-selective, Reductive Heck Derived Polynorbornenes with Enhanced Molecular Weights, Yields, and Hydrocarbon Gas Transport Properties,” ACS Macro Lett., 2020, 9, 1363.
  • Pilyugina* T. S. et al., “Development of second generation thiol isomerase inhibitors to prevent thrombus formation.” Blood, 2013, 122, 926.
  • Pilyugina, T. S. et al., “Simple organic molecules as catalysts for enantioselective synthesis of amines and alcohols,” Nature, 2012, 494, 216.
  • Pilyugina, T. S., et al., “New Enantiomerically Pure Alkylimido Mo-Based Complexes. Synthesis, characterization, and activity as chiral olefin metathesis catalysts,” Organometallics, 2007, 26, 831.
*maiden name

Honors & Involvement

HONORS
  • Morse Family Foundation grant
  • Cambridge Science Foundation grant