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Rita P. Sanzgiri, Ph.D.
Associate Attorney
Practice Areas:
Patent Prosecution: Biotechnology
and Chemistry
Summary of Practice:
Dr. Rita P. Sanzgiri is a registered patent attorney with experience in the general area of biotechnology and molecular biology. Rita’s practice includes patent preparation and prosecution, drafting infringement and invalidity opinions, due diligence of patent portfolios, and providing patent litigation support in the fields of genetics, biochemistry, cellular and molecular biology, immunology and neuroscience. Rita also has experience in technology licensing, as well as prosecution of trademark applications. Prior to joining Sheridan Ross, Rita obtained her Ph.D. in genetics from Iowa State University, where she studied cellular signaling in the mammalian nervous system in the laboratory of Dr. Phil Haydon. Rita further conducted her post-doctoral research in neuroscience with Dr. Levitan at Brandeis University. Rita is fluent in Hindi, Marathi and Gujarati.
Bar Admissions:
Colorado, 2006
United States Patent and Trademark Office, 2006
Education:
| Bombay University (B.S., Chemistry, 1988) |
| Poona University (M.S., Biotechnology, 1990) |
| Iowa State University (Ph.D., Genetics, 1998) |
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Premium-for-Academic-Excellence award |
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Excellence-in-Research award |
| University of Colorado (J.D., 2006) |
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John A. Cross Memorial Scholarship |
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Production Editor, Journal on Telecommunications and High Technology Law |
Professional
and Trade Memberships:
American Bar Association
Colorado Bio Sciences Association
Presentations, Articles,
Publications:
Sanzgiri R.P., Araque A. and Haydon P.G., Prostaglandin-E2 stimulates glutamate receptor-dependent astrocyte neuromodulation in cultured hippocampal cells, Journal of Neurobiology, 41:221-29 (1999).
Araque A., Sanzgiri R.P., Parpura V. and Haydon P.G., Astrocyte-induced modulation of synaptic transmission, Canadian Journal of Physiology and Pharmacology, 77:699-706 (1999).
Araque A., Parpura V., Sanzgiri R.P. and Haydon P.G., Tripartite synapses: Glia, the unacknowledged partner, Trends in Neuroscience, 22:208-15 (1999).
Araque A., Sanzgiri R.P., Parpura V. and Haydon P.G., Calcium elevation in astrocytes causes an NMDA receptor-dependent increase in the frequency of miniature synaptic currents in cultured hippocampal neurons, Journal of Neuroscience, 18:6822-29 (1998).
Araque A., Parpura V., Sanzgiri R.P. and Haydon P.G., Glutamate-dependent astrocyte modulation of synaptic transmission between cultured hippocampal neurons, European Journal of Neuroscience, 10:2129-42 (1998).
Du C., Sanzgiri R.P., Shaiu W.-L, Choi J.-K., Hou Z., Benbow R.M. and Dobbs D.L., Modular structural elements in the replication origin region of Tetrahymena rDNA, Nucleic Acids Research, 23:1766-74 (1995).
Pandey V.N., Kaushik N.A., Sanzgiri R.P., Patil M.S., Modak M.J. and Barik S., Site directed mutagenesis of DNA polymerase I (Klenow) from Escherichia coli : The significance of arginine 682 in catalysis, European Journal of Biochemistry, 214:59-65 (1993).
Kaushik N.A., Sanzgiri R.P., Patil M.S. and Pandey V.N., Cloning and overproduction of the large proteolytic fragment (Klenow) of Escherichia coli DNA polymerase I, Current Science, 64:102-107 (1992).
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