Isaacs

Jordan Fredriksen Isaacs, Ph.D.

Patent Agent
Boston

I am focused on protecting client innovation through the establishment of a strong patent portfolio.

As an entrepreneurially-minded scientist, Dr. Jordan Fredriksen Isaacs leverages her cross-disciplinary expertise in immunology, neuroscience and cancer biology to prosecute patents in the life science industry.

Jordan earned her Ph.D. from Dartmouth College in microbiology and immunology. Her dissertation focused on the regulation and therapeutic targeting of virus-specific resident memory T cells. 

Education

  • Dartmouth College, Ph.D., Microbiology and Immunology, 2024
  • Smith College, B.A., Neuroscience, Economics, 2018
     

Bar and Court Admissions

BAR ADMISSIONS
  • U.S. Patent & Trademark Office (Agency)

Experience

CLIENT EXPERIENCE
  • Provided IP diligence support to Genmab A/S (NASDAQ: GMAB), an international biotech company specializing in antibody therapeutics for the treatment of cancer and other serious diseases, in its acquisition of Merus for $8B, expanding Genmab’s late-stage pipeline

PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE
  • Intellectual Property Intern, Dartmouth Innovation Accelerator for Cancer
  • Venture Fellow, 82VS Venture Studio
  • Healthcare Fellow, Alloy Therapeutics

Other Publications

  • JF Isaacs, HN Degefu, T Chen, SA Kleist, SC Musial, MA Ford, TG Searles, C Lin, AGJ Skorput, K Shirai, MJ Turk, GJ Zanazzi, PC Rosato; CD39 Is Expressed on Functional Effector and Tissue-resident Memory CD8+ T Cells. J Immunol 2024; ji2400151.
  • JF Isaacs, Regulation and therapeutic targeting of virus-specific resident memory T cells. Dartmouth College Ph.D Dissertation; 2024.
  • Shawn C. Musial, Sierra A. Kleist, Hanna N. Degefu, Myles A. Ford, Tiffany Chen, Jordan F. Isaacs, Vassiliki A. Boussiotis, Alexander G. J. Skorput, Pamela C. Rosato; Alarm Functions of PD-1+ Brain-Resident Memory T Cells. J Immunol 1 December 2024; 213 (11): 1585–159.
IN THE MEDIA

EVENTS

  • New England Graduate Women in Science and Engineering (NE-GWISE) Annual Retreat Career Panel (January 2026)
  • Dartmouth Thayer Biomedical Engineering Career Panel (March 2025)
  • "Life Sciences Innovation & Careers in the Legal Industry," Dartmouth College (February 2025)
  • Winsor School STEM & Society Course (September 2024)