Stephanie A. Miller

Medical Technology, Biotechnology

Ph.D., Biochemistry and Molecular Genetics

Stephanie A. Miller, Ph.D., joined the Patent Foundation as a licensing associate in July 2009. She evaluates and markets technologies primarily in the areas of biochemistry, biotechnology, cell biology and medical devices. Miller also manages the licensing of reagents such as antibody hybridomas, transgenic mice and expression plasmids.

Before joining the Patent Foundation full time, Miller served for two years as a licensing intern at the foundation — assisting in evaluating patentability, searching for prior art and marketing — while completing her graduate studies at the University of Virginia. Miller received her Ph.D. in October 2009 from the Department of Biochemistry and Molecular Genetics in the laboratory of P. Todd Stukenberg, Ph.D. Her thesis focuses on the molecular mechanisms of mitosis — specifically the interaction between chromosomes and microtubules as mediated by the Ndc80 protein complex.

Miller received a master’s degree from U.Va. in 2006 and a bachelor’s degree with distinction from the University of Delaware in 2003. Her undergraduate research was performed in the laboratory of Mary C. Farach-Carson, Ph.D., in the Department of Biological Sciences at the University of Delaware, where she worked on the regulation of early chondrogenesis by the ribosomal protein HIP/RPL29.

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