About Me
Hi, I’m Erin Umberg, I’m a former scientist (Stanford trained) turned IP lawyer, with a passion for patient advocacy, health + human biology, and an aversion to pseudoscience. I began my academic career as a Plebe (IYKYK) at West Point aka the United States Military Academy, ranked first in my class before being medically discharged after a Lupus (SLE) diagnosis. I then studied Human Biology at Stanford University, followed by a Masters in Psychology (Neuroscience track). After spending some time performing clinical research in Pediatric Neurology at Stanford Hospital, I pursued a PhD in Molecular Physiology and Pharmacology at Tuft’s Graduate School of Biomedical Sciences. I dropped out before dissertation to pursue a full scholarship to UC Berkeley School of Law to focus on Biotechnology and Intellectual Property Law (this decision was partly informed by single motherhood and doing what was best for my daughter at the time). I now help coordinate science philanthropy across various scientific disciplines and live, breathe and eat all things related to human biology and physiology.
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