William L. Neeley

Will Neeley assists the firm in patent prosecution in the areas of organic chemistry, chemical and biological materials, biochemistry, pharmaceuticals, controlled drug release, and biomedical engineering.

• Assisted with patent preparation and prosecution in biochemistry, electrochemistry, polymer chemistry, microelectromechanical systems, nanoelectronics, mass spectrometry, and medical devices.
• Worked with inventors, professors, and research scientists in reviewing invention disclosures.
• Assisted in patent literature searches and analyses for freedom to operate patentability studies.

Will’s scientific background includes synthetic organic chemistry, biochemistry and molecular biology, polymer chemistry, microfabrication, biomaterials, micro- and nanoparticles for controlled drug release, and neural stem cell culture. He completed his postdoctoral training with Professor Robert Langer in the Department of Chemical Engineering at MIT. His research focused primarily on retinal tissue engineering using stem cells and microfabricated elastomeric polymers as a potential therapy for restoring vision in patients with retinal degeneration diseases.

Will's doctoral research investigated the molecular mechanisms of carcinogenesis and involved the chemical synthesis of oxidized DNA nucleosides and the evaluation of their toxic and mutagenic effects in vivo using a viral replication system.

Will has authored and co-authored a number of publications in these fields and has presented his work at national and international conferences.

American Chemical Society

Will has received many awards including a National Institutes of Health Postdoctoral Fellowship, a Massachusetts Institute of Technology Presidential Graduate Fellowship, and a Howard Hughes Medical Institute Undergraduate Research Fellowship. He was the author of the Most-Cited Article of 2006 in Chemical Research in Toxicology and participated in the American Chemical Society’s German Exchange Program. As an undergraduate, he received the John C. Sowden Prize in Chemistry for the outstanding graduating senior.

Will builds and flies radio-controlled model airplanes and is an avid skier.

Washington University in St. Louis, A.B., Chemistry, summa cum laude

Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Ph.D., Biological Chemistry

Suffolk University Law School, J.D., 2014 Candidate