Christina A. Onufryk

Christina Onufryk is a Patent Agent in Morrison & Foerster’s Palo Alto office. Her practice focuses on patent prosecution and counseling, with an emphasis in the areas of biology, chemistry, and pharmaceuticals. Her representative technologies include expression analysis systems, drug discovery, single-molecule sequencing, and therapeutic antibodies.

Prior to joining Morrison & Foerster, Ms. Onufryk held a patent agent position at Quine Intellectual Property Law Group in Alameda, CA. She received her Ph.D. in biochemistry and molecular biology from the University of California, San Francisco, where she was the recipient of the Howard Hughes Medical Institute Predoctoral Fellowship in Biological Sciences. She earned her B.S. degree in biology from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, where she was elected to Phi Beta Kappa and Sigma Xi.