Dana M. Daukss

Prior to joining Choate, Dana was a Senior Patent Analyst at the Global Prior Art Inc. in Boston. She supported patent prosecution and litigation in technical areas including drug delivery, physiological sensors, tissue engineering, orthopedic implants, and devices for endoscopic and endovascular surgery.

While working on her Master’s degree in biomedical engineering from Boston University, Dana designed clinical solutions to improve abdominal aortic aneurysm repair, and conducted research into the mechanisms of bone healing and repair at the orthopedics lab at Boston University’s Medical School.

• "Patent watch: Microscale implantable drug delivery systems: emerging IP strategies", co-author, Nature Reviews Drug Discovery 15.11, 740-741, 2016.
• “Role of Fas and Treg Cells in Fracture Healing as Characterized in the Fas-Deficient (lpr) Mouse Model of Lupus,” co-author, Journal of Bone and Mineral Research, 29(6), 1478-1491.
• “Effects of lamprey PQRFamide peptides on brain gonadotropin-releasing hormone concentrations and pituitary gonadotropin-β mRNA expression,” first-author, General and comparative endocrinology, 177(2), 215-219.
• “Evolutionary origin of the structure and function of gonadotropin-inhibitory hormone: insights from lampreys,” co-author, Endocrinology, 153(5), 2362-2374.