Dr Danielle Burns

Leading the Way participant

Senior Associate

FB Rice

Dr Danielle Burns is an Australian and New Zealand registered patent attorney. Danielle prepares and prosecutes patent applications throughout the world; provides patentability, infringement, clearance, and validity opinions; conducts opposition and due diligence work, with a specialty in biopharmaceuticals (including antibodies), diagnostics and agriculture.

Danielle works with a number of local and overseas biotech companies, including SMEs, big pharma and generics as well as academic institutions to protect their intellectual property and help them avoid infringing competitor's intellectual property rights. Danielle completed a BSc (Hons) and a PhD (Immunology) at the University of Melbourne, before working as a postdoctoral scientist at BIO21.