Dr. Kristen Muñoz focuses her practice on patent drafting and prosecution related to chemical biology and small molecule pharmaceuticals.

Prior to joining MoFo, Kristen earned her Ph.D. in chemistry from the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, where she was a National Institutes of Health Chemistry-Biology Interface trainee. Her graduate research included designing and synthesizing small molecules to develop microbiome-sparing Gram-negative-selective antibiotics that target the ESKAPE pathogens.

Kristen received her B.A. in chemistry and Spanish at Claremont McKenna College, where she studied configurable lipid membrane gradients to quantify binding densities and phase separations.