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Grace Liu
Patent Agent
Patents and Innovations
San Francisco
gliu@wsgr.com

D415-947-2143

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Grace Liu is a patent agent in the San Francisco office of Wilson Sonsini Goodrich & Rosati, where she is a member of the patents and innovations group. Her work focuses on patent preparation and prosecution in the fields of biotechnology, genomics, protein engineering, bioinformatics, and machine learning.

Prior to joining the firm, Grace obtained an M.S. in biomedical informatics at Harvard Medical School for her work with the Dr. David Liu lab developing bioinformatics algorithms to characterize genomic changes in immunotherapy-resistant tumor samples. As an undergraduate, she worked in the Dr. Frances Arnold lab to develop machine learning models for predicting protein function and interactions.

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Grace Liu is a patent agent in the San Francisco office of Wilson Sonsini Goodrich & Rosati, where she is a member of the patents and innovations group. Her work focuses on patent preparation and prosecution in the fields of biotechnology, genomics, protein engineering, bioinformatics, and machine learning.

Prior to joining the firm, Grace obtained an M.S. in biomedical informatics at Harvard Medical School for her work with the Dr. David Liu lab developing bioinformatics algorithms to characterize genomic changes in immunotherapy-resistant tumor samples. As an undergraduate, she worked in the Dr. Frances Arnold lab to develop machine learning models for predicting protein function and interactions.

Education
  • M.S., Biomedical Informatics, Harvard University, 2024
  • B.S., Biology, California Institute of Technology, 2023
Admissions
  • U.S. Patent and Trademark Office
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Education
  • M.S., Biomedical Informatics, Harvard University, 2024
  • B.S., Biology, California Institute of Technology, 2023
Admissions
  • U.S. Patent and Trademark Office

Select Publications

    • Co-author, “A combinatorially complete epistatic fitness landscape in an enzyme active site,” PNAS, 2024
    • Co-author, “Experience-dependent plasticity in an innate social behavior is mediated by hypothalamic LTP,” PNAS, 2020
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Select Publications

    • Co-author, “A combinatorially complete epistatic fitness landscape in an enzyme active site,” PNAS, 2024
    • Co-author, “Experience-dependent plasticity in an innate social behavior is mediated by hypothalamic LTP,” PNAS, 2020

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  • Gene editing
  • Gene therapy
  • Immunotherapy targets

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  • Bioinformatic
  • Biomedical engineering
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  • Digital pathology

Chemistry and Material Science

  • Chemoenzymatic synthesis
  • Protein engineering
  • Protein folding

Engineering and Technology

  • AI
  • Computer science
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  • Bioinformatics algorithms
  • Computational biology
  • Next-generation sequencing
  • Sequencing
  • Single-cell sequencing

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