Ryan R. Kilmczak focuses his practice on assisting clients with all aspects of patent prosecution by preparing and filing U.S. provisional, utility, and Patent Cooperation Treaty patent applications in areas such as molecular and cellular biology and biochemical science. He is also part of the firm’s nationally recognized reexamination practice.
Dr. Klimczak received his Ph.D. in neurobiology from the University of California – Berkeley, focusing his studies on engineering novel viral vectors to create more efficacious gene delivery vehicles to combat retinal degenerative diseases. Dr. Klimczak has also instructed undergraduate level neuroscience and molecular biology courses.
Dr. Klimczak’s research experience also includes postgraduate research in biophysics at the Department of Neurology at Stanford Medical School, where he performed structural studies on neurotransmitter transporters. He has also performed research in genetics at the Department of Pharmacology at Oxford University examining genetic risk factors associated with infertility, as well as in his undergraduate research at Harvard Medical School where he studied the genetic underpinnings of longevity.
Publications and Speeches
"A novel adeno-associated viral variant for efficient and selective transduction of rat Müller cells." PLoS One 10: e7467. Klimczak R, Koerber JT, Dalkara D, Flannery JG, Schaffer DV (2009.
"Inner limiting membrane barriers to AAV-mediated retinal transduction from the vitreous." Mol Ther: 2009 Aug 11; [Epub ahead of print]. Dalkara D, Kolstad KD, Caporale N, Visel M, Klimczak R, et al. (2009).
"Molecular evolution of adeno-associated virus for enhanced glial gene delivery." Mol Ther: 2009 Aug 11; [Epub ahead of print]. Koerber JT, Klimczak R, Jang JH, Dalkara D, Flannery JG, et al. (2009.
"Identification of Caenorhabditis elegans genes regulating longevity using enhanced RNAi-sensitive strains." Cold Spring Harb Symp Quant Biol 72: 489-97. Samuelson AV, Klimczak R, Thompson DB, Carr CE, Ruvkun G (2007).
Practice Areas
Admissions
- U.S. Patent and Trademark Office
Education
- University of California - Berkeley, Ph.D. Neurobiology
- Harvard University, A.B. Biochemical Sciences with honors