Matthew O. Duffey, PhD
Overview
Matt Duffey counsels clients in creating and carrying out strategies for protecting intellectual property, including patent prosecution and opinion work in chemical, biochemical, and pharmaceutical technologies.
Having a background as both a scientist and inventor, Matt provides valuable insight to firm clients. In particular, Matt draws on his extensive knowledge of organic and medicinal chemistry, including reaction methods development, complex organic synthesis, and drug discovery and development.
Prior to his law practice, Matt was a medicinal chemist in oncology drug discovery at Millennium Pharmaceuticals (now Takeda Pharmaceuticals) engaging in all aspects of small molecule drug discovery for several biological targets. There, he contributed to multiple therapeutics reaching clinical development and was a co-inventor on at least 10 issued US patents.
Matt earned his PhD in organic chemistry from the University of North Carolina-Chapel Hill and was a postdoctoral fellow at the University of Pennsylvania. His research encompassed asymmetric catalysis, new organic reaction methods, and natural product synthesis.
Activities
- American Chemical Society
- As a law student, Matt worked in Suffolk University Law School’s Innocence Clinic, which partners with Massachusetts’ Committee for Public Counsel Services Innocence Program and the New England Innocence Project to identify and overturn wrongful criminal convictions.
Recognition
- NIH Postdoctoral Fellowship – University of Pennsylvania
- Burroughs-Wellcome Fellowship – University of North Carolina
- Phi Beta Kappa – Virginia Tech