Dr Pulari Thangavelu is a patent and trade marks attorney based in Brisbane.
Pulari has experience in working in both academic and industrial environments, and has technical expertise in gene editing, cancer immunotherapies, high-throughput screening for small molecule drug discovery, cell-based assay development, cell culture, computational modelling of HIV infection, cell and molecular biology, stem cells, and microfluidics.
Prior to joining the patent profession, Pulari worked as a Research Fellow at Cancer Therapeutics CRC (CTx) at Griffith Institute for Drug Discovery in Brisbane. Pulari has published her academic research in peer-reviewed scientific journals. During her doctoral studies, Pulari worked on identifying novel potential therapeutic targets to treat breast cancer.
Pulari holds a PhD in Cancer Biology from the University of Queensland Diamantina Institute, as well as a Masters in Chemical Engineering from the University at Buffalo, the State University of New York in the USA and a Masters of Intellectual Property from the University of Technology Sydney.
Qualifications
- Bachelor of Engineering (Chemical, MS Ramaiah Institute of Technology (India)
- Master of Engineering (Chemical), University of Buffalo, State University of New York
- Doctor of Philosophy (Cancer Biology), University of Queensland Diamantina Institute
- Masters of Intellectual Property, University of Technology, Sydney (Australia)
- Registered Patent and Trade Mark Attorney
Associations
- Member, Institute of Patent and Trade Mark Attorneys of Australia (IPTA)
- Member, Intellectual Property Society of Australia and New Zealand (IPSANZ)