Dr. Monika Ayten

German and European Patent Attorney Trainee

M.Sc. Drug Research

Monika Ayten is a patent attorney trainee at Maiwald where she specializes in intellectual property protection in the fields of pharmacy, molecular biology and biomedicine. Her PhD research focused on the identification and characterisation of dysregulated proteins in a retinitis pigmentosa mouse model using proteomic analysis. Her dissertation investigated the degeneration of photoreceptors, metabolic changes, changes in visual acuity and inflammatory processes.

As postdoc at Harvard University, she conducted research in the field of retinal development, focusing in particular on T-box transcription factors and their role in photoreceptor distribution and macula development. In the course of her work there she acquired particular expertise in the electroporation of the optic eye primordium of chick embryos.

Monika Ayten research findings have been published in several prestigious journals. She has also presented her findings at various national and international academic conferences.