Overview:

We are delighted that Menisha Manhota has joined Barker Brettell as a Trainee Patent Attorney reporting to Lucy Trueman.

Experience:

  • Holds a PhD in Chemistry from the University of Birmingham working on an interdisciplinary research project developing nanotechnology for drug delivery to treat dental infections. Collaborating with the School of Chemistry, Dentistry, and Metallurgy and Materials and external start-up companies.
  • Involved in various in-house and external clinical trials and analytical chemistry data analysis client projects over a two-year period at a Cambridge-based biotechnology company. This included discovering breathing biomarkers for diseases, as well as working alongside engineers developing respiratory medical devices.
  • Other research projects have explored enzyme responsive nanomaterials as antimicrobial agents, supramolecular metal complexes for Ramen mapping in ovarian cancer cells and metal complexes for medical imaging.