Violet graduated from Nanyang Technological University (NTU) in 2016 with an honours degree in Chemistry and Biological Chemistry, and a minor in Environmental Sustainability. During her final year in NTU, she enrolled in an overseas exchange programme to Imperial College London where she worked on the use of ammonium persulfate as an oxidant in organic synthesis for her final year project. She was awarded a scholarship by National University of Singapore (NUS) Graduate School - Integrative Sciences and Engineering Programme in 2016. The focus of her PhD research was on discovering new modes of activation for platinum(IV) prodrugs to achieve controlled anticancer drug delivery.
Violet is currently training to become a registered patent attorney in Singapore.
Marks & Clerk protects innovation and brilliant ideas. Related to this, our previous article in this series on neurodiversity celebrated the remarkable inventor Thomas Edison, who worked alongside our co-founder George Croydon Marks.
Working with many universities the question of 'who owns university derived intellectual property' or variations of this question comes up frequently and so we thought it worthy of a closer look and discussion.
Paul Chapman reflects on a recent webinar hosted by the European patent office (EPO), which discussed some of the findings from their report looking into patents and innovation in European universities.