Kathleen M. Helm-Bychowski

Technical Advisor

Dr. Helm-Bychowski is presently a technical advisor with an emphasis in the areas of chemistry and biotechnology. Prior to joining Leydig, Voit and Mayer, she was a visiting research professor in the Department of Anatomy and Cell Biology at the University of Illinois at Chicago, and an assistant professor of biochemistry and chemistry at DePaul University.

Dr. Helm-Bychowski was a Lando Research Fellow at the University of Minnesota and a post-doctoral associate at the University of California, Berkeley. Her research involved using biochemical techniques such as immunochemistry, restriction enzyme mapping, PCR, and DNA sequencing to study the evolution of organisms, macromolecules, and nuclear/mitochondrial interactions.

Professional Affiliations

• American Association for the Advancement of Science
• American Chemical Society
  • Member of Division of Biochemistry and Division of Chemistry & the Law
• American Intellectual Property Law Association (AIPLA)
• Intellectual Property Owners Association (IPO)

Articles and Publications

• McCourt, Richard M., Karol, Kenneth G., Bell, Jeremy, Helm-Bychowski, Kathleen M., Grajewska, Anna, Wojciechowski, Martin F. and Hoshaw, Robert W. (2000) Phylogeny of the Conjugating Green Algae (Zygnemophyceae) Based on rbcL Sequences. J. Phycol. 36: 747-758.
• Helm-Bychowski, K., Vaeth, J, Yedlinski, J., Shah, K. and Putzke, A. (1999) Evolutionary Insights from Sequences of Mitochondrial Protein Genes in Corvine Birds. Contributed poster to the 6th Annual Biochemistry, Biophysics and Molecular Biology Symposium, Iowa State University, Ames, Nov. 5-6.
• Cracraft, Joel, Feinstein, Julie, Vaughn, Jeffrey and Helm-Bychowski, Kathleen. (1998) Sorting Out Tigers (Panthera tigris): Mitochondrial Sequences, Nuclear Inserts, Systematics, and Conservation Genetics. Animal Conservation. 1: 139-150.

Representative Matters

• Pharmaceutical active compounds, syntheses, and formulations
• Personal care product formulations
• Processes for copper compounds
• Ink jet inks

Bar Admissions and Registrations

• Registered to practice before the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office

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