Caressa Tsai is an associate in Morrison Foerster’s San Francisco office and a member of the firm’s Patent Strategy + Prosecution Group. Caressa’s practice focuses on life sciences, biotechnology, and agriculture matters.

Caressa received her J.D. from the University of California, Berkeley, School of Law, where she was a publishing editor of the California Law Review and a senior life sciences editor for the Berkeley Technology Law Journal. She received Jurisprudence Awards for Life Sciences and Innovation Workshops I and II, the Prosser Prize for Intellectual Property Law, and the Law and Technology Certificate.

Prior to law school, Caressa received her Ph.D. in biochemistry and biomedical sciences from McMaster University. Her Ph.D. research focused on exploiting host immune pathways for anti-infective drug discovery in Salmonella. She graduated with an H.B.Sc. with high distinction in biology from the University of Toronto, where her research focused on bioinformatic approaches to detect signatures of selection in intrinsically disordered proteins.

Caressa is admitted to practice in California and has limited recognition to practice in patent matters before the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office.