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Dr. Healey oversees the university research, intellectual property, technology transfer and enterprise creation, research integrity and compliance, as well as the research relationships with the federal government with the goal of enhancing the societal impact of the university's innovative research. Dr. Healey also teaches Environmental Chemistry at the School of Science and Engineering and Patent Law, Commercial Use of IP and Patent Drafting at the Thomas R. Kline School of Law.

Dr. Healey is an inventor, patent holder, registered U.S. patent attorney, chemist, and published author with extensive knowledge of the chemical and pharmaceutical industries and in intellectual property law. She helped as a scientist and shareholder lead a new venture enterprise from concept idea to sustained revenue within the Pittsburgh Life Sciences Greenhouse innovation ecosystem. As a patent practitioner for over a decade, she has counseled clients on a wide range of intellectual property matters and patent law issues. Dr. Healey has also prepared and prosecuted thousands of patent applications, managed numerous patent portfolios, provided hundreds of opinions and assessments on patent infringement, validity, freedom-to-operate, and patentability. She has also helped many intellectual property owners with due diligence issues, licensing strategies, and technology evaluation in support of product development, acquisition and launch.

Additionally, Dr. Healey's experience in the private sector at a large international chemical company and domestic pharmaceutical start-up, in the educational field, and as an inventor gave her a unique insight at the intersection of science, technology, and intellectual property, stemming from an in-depth understanding of the various aspects of the innovation processes in a wide range of state-of-the-art technologies.  

Dr. Healey is fluent in French, author or co-author of over 20 scientific articles in high impact factor journals and co-author of a book in the field of supramolecular chemistry. She was highlighted in Science and has served as a peer reviewer for Organometallics, an ACS journal.

Education

  • J.D., Duquesne University
    • Duquesne Law Review Executive Student Articles Editor, Vol. 54
    • Publication: Factors and Frackers: A Look into the Scientific Methods Used by the EPA to Study and Assess Air Pollution from the Shale Oil and Gas Industry and Some Proposed Solutions, Duq. L. Rev., 2016, 54, 223-242
  • Ph.D., Chemistry, University of South Florida 
    • Thesis Title: “Supramolecular Metal-Organic and Organic Materials”
  • M.S., Organic Chemistry, University Claude Bernard, France
    • Thesis Title: “Olefin Metathesis of Oxygenated Alkenes”
  • B.S., Chemistry, University Claude Bernard, France
    • Thesis Title: “Pauson-Khand Reaction Using Various Transition Metals”

 

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FALL
Patent Law

SPRING
Environmental Chemistry
Patent Drafting
Commercial Use of IP

U.S. Patent No. 7,927,569, April 19, 2011, Methods for producing Gallium and other oxo/hydroxo-bridged metal aquo clusters.
Self-assembled supramolecular main group coordination complexes, In Bottom-up Nanofabrication: Supramolecules, Self-Assemblies and Organized Films; Ariga, K. and Nalwa, H. S., Eds; American Scientific Publishers: Stevenson Ranch, 2007 (ISBN: 1-58883-079-9).
1. Carter, J.; Costales S.; Frederick M.; Gonzales N.; Healey E.; Imam M.; Lee C.; Rodman R.; Wilson S.; Ziegler B.; Economics of Diversity, IPO L. J., 2019.
 
2. Healey, E. R.; Factors and Frackers: A Look into the Scientific Methods Used by the EPA to Study and Assess Air Pollution from the Shale Oil and Gas Industry and Some Proposed Solutions, Duq. L. Rev., 2016, 54, 223-242.

3. Cheney, M. L.; Shan, N.; Healey, E. R.; Hanna, M.; Wojtas, L.; Zaworotko, M. J.; Sava, V.; Song, S.; Sanchez-Ramos, J. R.; Effects of Crystal Form on Solubility and Pharmacokinetics: A crystal engineering case study of lamotrigine, Cryst. Growth Des., 2010, 10, 394–405.

4. Turta, C. I.; Chapurina, L. F.; Donica, I. G.; Voronkova, V. C.; Healey, E. R.; Kravtsov, V.C.; Synthetic, spectroscopic and X-ray crystallographic structural studies on copper(II) complexes of the aminoguanizone of pyruvic acid, Inorg. Chim. Acta, 2008, 361, 309-316.

5. Healey, E. R.; Vickaryous, W. J.; Berryman, O. B.; Johnson, D. W.; Self-assembled supramolecular main group coordination complexes, In Bottom-up Nanofabrication: Supramolecules, Self-Assemblies and Organized Films; Ariga, K. and Nalwa, H. S., Eds; American Scientific Publishers: Stevenson Ranch, 2007 (ISBN: 1-58883-079-9).

6. Kasyan, O.; Healey, E. R.; Drapailo, A.; Zaworotko, M.; Cecillon, S.; Coleman, A. W.; Kalchenko, V. Synthesis, structure and selective upper rim functionalization of long chained alkoxythiacalix-[4]-arenes, J. Inclusion Phenom. Macrocycl. Chem., 2007, 58, 127132.

7. Parks, B. W.; Gilbertson, R. D.; Hutchison, J. E.; Healey, E. R.; Weakley, T. J. R.; Rapko, B. M.; Hay, B. P.; Sinkov, S. I.; Broker, G. A.; Rogers, R. D.; Solution and structural investigations of ligand preorganization in trivalent lanthanide complexes of bicyclic malonamides, Inorg. Chem., 2006, 45, 1498-1507.

8. Carter, T. G.; Healey, E. R.; Pitt, M. A.; Johnson, D. W.; Secondary bonding interactions observed in two arsenic thiolate complexes, Inorg. Chem., 2005, 44, 9634-9636.

9. Vickaryous, W. J.; Healey, E. R.; Berryman, O. B.; Johnson, D. W.; Synthesis and characterization of two isomeric, self-assembled arsenic-thiolate macrocycles, Inorg. Chem., 2005, 44, 9247-9252.

10. Shahgaldian, P.; Coleman, A. W.; Rather, B.; Zaworotko, M. J.; Double molecular encapsulation of tetrahydrofuran by an amphiphilic calix-[4]-arene, J. Inclusion Phenom., 2005, 52, 241-245.

11. Rather, E.; Gatlin, J. T.; Nixon, P. G.; Tsukamoto, T.; Kravtsov, V.; Johnson, D. W.; A simple organic reaction mediates the crystallization of the inorganic nanocluster [Ga13(μ3-OH)6(μ2-OH)18(H2O)24](NO3)15, J. Am. Chem. Soc., 2005, 127, 3242-3243.
Highlighted in Editor’s Choice - Highlights of the Recent Literature in Science, 2005, 307, 1377.

12. Johnson, C. A.; Haley, M. H.; Rather, E.; Han, F.; Weakley, T. J. R.; Selective metallacyclization and crystallographic characterization of structurally related platina-annulenes, Organometallics, 2005, 24, 1161-1172.

13. Cecillon, S.; Lazar, A.; Danylyuk, O.; Suwinska, K.; Rather, B.; Zaworotko, M. J.; Coleman, A. W.; Head-to-tail self-assembly of a calix-[4]-arene inclusion polymer controlled by a pendant arm, Chem. Commun., 2005, 2442-2444.

14. Rather, B.; Zaworotko, M. J.; A 3D metal-organic network, [Cu2(glutarate)2(4,4’-bipyridine)], that exhibits single-crystal to single-crystal dehydration and rehydration, Chem. Commun., 2003, 830-831.

15. Da Silva, E.; Nouar, F.; Nierlich, M.; Rather, B.; Zaworotko, M. J.; Barbey, C.; Navaza, A.; Coleman, A. W.; A comparative structural study of four para-sulphonato-calix-[4]-arene organic di- and triammonium cation complexes, Cryst. Eng., 2003, 6, 123-135.

16. Da Silva, E.; Nouar, F.; Coleman, A. W.; Rather, B.; Zaworotko, M. J.; Solution and solid-state interactions between para-sulphonato-calix-[4]-arene and some common organic biological buffers, J. Inclusion Phenom. Macrocycl. Chem., 2003, 46, 161-166.

17. Rather, B.; Moulton, B.; Zaworotko, M. J.; Perret, F.; Morel-Desrosiers, N.; Da Silva, E.; Coleman, A.W.; Crystal engineering of a calix-arene dimer embedded in a hydrophobic cavity formed by a diammonium host matrix, Cryst. Eng., 2003, 6, 15-21.

18. Shahgaldian, P.; Da Silva, E.; Coleman, A. W.; Rather, B.; Zaworotko, M. J.; Para-acyl-calix-arene based solid lipid nanoparticles (SLNs): a detailed study of preparation and stability parameters, Int. J. Pharm., 2003, 253, 23-28.

19. Rather, B.; Moulton, B.; Walsh, R. D. B.; Zaworotko, M. J.; A new supramolecular isomer of [Zn(Nicotinate)2]n: a novel 42.84 network that is the result of self-assembly of 4-connected nodes, Chem. Commun., 2002, 694-695.

20. Moulton, B.; Rather, E. B.; Zaworotko, M. J.; Interpenetration of covalent and noncovalent networks in the crystal structures of {[M(4,4 '-Bipyridine)2(NO3)2]•2p-nitroaniline}n where M=Co, 1, Ni, 2, Zn, 3, Cryst. Eng., 2001, 4, 309-317.

21. Abourahma, H.; Coleman, A. W.; Moulton, B.; Rather, B.; Shahgaldian, P.; Zaworotko, M. J.; Hydroxylated nanoballs: Synthesis, crystal structure, solubility and crystallization on surfaces, Chem. Commun., 2001, 2380-2381.

22. Da Silva, E.; Memmi, L.; Coleman, A. W.; Rather, B.; Zaworotko, M. J.; Synthesis and solid-state structures of mono-functionalized para-H-calix-[6]-arenes, J. Supramol. Chem., 2001, 1, 135-138.
1. Rather, E.; A simple organic reaction mediates the crystallization of the inorganic nanocluster [Ga13(μ3-OH)6(μ2-OH)18(H2O)24](NO3)15, Material Science Retreat, Timberline Lodge, Oregon, September 2004.

2. Kalchenko, V.; Rather, E.; Coleman, A. W.; Synthesis and x-ray analysis of decyloxythiacalix-[4]-arenes, Ukrainian-Polish-Moldovian Symposium of Supramolecular Chemistry, November 2003.

3. Rather, E.; Calix[4]arene derivatives - Self association and crystal packing, SERMACS 2002, 59th Southern Regional Meeting of the ACS, Charleston, South Carolina, November 2002.

4. Rather, E.; Calix[4]arene derivatives - Self association and crystal packing, ACA Annual Meeting, San Antonio, Texas, May 2002.

5. Rather, E.; Crystal engineering of functionalized metal-organic composites, 223rd ACS National Meeting, Orlando, Florida, April 2002.

6. Rather, E.; Interpenetrating covalent and noncovalent square grid networks, FAME 2001, Florida Annual Meeting and Exposition, Orlando, Florida, May 2001.
  • Patent Attorney Registration No. 64890.
  • Inventor in United States Patent Number 7,927,569.
  • Advanced Photovoltaics Award, Solar Energy International, 2007.
  • American Chemical Society Division of Inorganic Chemistry Young Investigator Award Nomination, 2005.
  • Shembekar Scholarship Award, University of South Florida, 2002.
  • Chemistry Outstanding Teaching Award, University of South Florida, 2001.