Dr Matthias Hoffmann
M.Sc. Pharmaceutical Sciences
Matthias Hoffmann is a patent attorney trainee at Maiwald. His work covers all aspects of patent prosecution in the fields of pharmaceuticals and chemistry.
In the course of his doctoral research, Matthias investigated new active ingredients for the treatment of Alzheimer´s disease, radioactive molecules for use in medical research as well as flavors and odors in the area of food chemistry. His research results have been published in prestigious medicinal chemistry journals. He is co-inventor of two PCT patents.
| Since 2020 | Trainee patent attorney at Maiwald |
| 2019-2020 | Postdoc researcher at the institute Mécanismes Maoléculaires dans les Démences Neurodégénératives (MMDN, INSERM) of the University of Montpellier |
| 2016-2019 | Research assistant at the Chair of Pharmaceutical and Medicinal Chemistry of the Julius Maximilian University of Würzburg |
| Since 2020 | Studying law for patent attorneys at the University of Hagen |
| 2016-2019 | Doctoral degree in the field of of medicinal and organic chemistry at the Julius Maximilian University of Würzburg |
| 2013-2015 | Master’s degree in pharmaceutical sciences at the University of Münster |
| 2010-2013 | Bachelor’s degree in chemistry at the Paderborn University |
- Patent prosecution and portfolio management
- Filing strategies and drafting patent applications
- Freedom-to-operate- and validity opinions
- Opposition proceedings
- Best poster award at the "Frontiers in Medicinal Chemistry" conference of the Gesellschaft Deutscher Chemiker 2019
- PhD scholarship of the "Studienstiftung des Deutschen Volkes"
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