Contact Information

Admissions

*Jessica Perkins is not licensed to practice law. Her activities are directly supervised by members of the firm licensed to practice law in the firm’s Irvine office.

Credentials

  • Ph.D., The University of Texas at San Antonio, Neuroscience
  • B.S., The University of Texas at San Antonio, Biology, Concentration in Neurobiology
     

Jessica provides guidance on patent prosecution for the biopharma industry. Her expertise is in biotechnology, pharmaceuticals, cell therapy, and molecular biology. 

Before joining the firm, Jessica had a decade of experience in life sciences research. She served as a postdoctoral fellow at the National Institutes of Health, where she studied the biophysical properties of dopamine neurons and evaluated various Parkinson’s disease treatments to identify optimal therapies.

Thought Leadership

  • First Author, “In vivo patch-clamp recordings reveal distinct subthreshold signatures and threshold dynamics of midbrain dopamine neurons,” Nature Communications, December 2020
  • Co-Author, “Ventral tegmental area astrocytes orchestrate avoidance and approach behavior,” Nature Communications, March 2019
  • Co-Author, “Cocaine selectively reorganizes excitatory inputs to substantia nigra pars compacta dopamine neurons,” Journal of Neuroscience, January 2018
  • Co-Author, “A layer-specific corticofugal input to the mouse superior colliculus,” Cerebral Cortex, August 2018
     

Honors & Awards

  • The University of Texas at San Antonio, “The President’s Distinguished Achievement Award – Innovation and Impact”, 2019
  • The University of Texas at San Antonio, “Presidential Distinguished Research Fellowship”, 2016
     

Previous Experience

  • Postdoctoral fellow, National Institutes of Health, 2021-2024