Dr. Edith Pierre-Jerome focuses her practice on patent drafting and prosecution in areas related to molecular and cellular biology, biochemistry, microbiology, and plant genetics.

Edith has more than 10 years of experience as a plant molecular biologist investigating gene regulation. Prior to joining MoFo, she was an HHMI Postdoctoral Research Fellow at Duke University in the lab of Dr. Philip Benfey. She was awarded a postdoctoral fellowship from the Life Sciences Research Foundation for her creative and innovative research in the nascent field of plant synthetic biology.

Edith earned her Ph.D. in biology from the University of Washington, Seattle where she was an ARCS Foundation Scholar and an NSF Graduate Research Fellow. Her doctoral research in the lab of Dr. Jennifer Nemhauser used genetic engineering to successfully reconstruct the auxin signaling pathway from Arabidopsis in yeast. She earned her B.S. in genetics and plant biology and her B.A. in art history from the University of California, Berkeley.