Tara A. Nealey, Ph.D., J.D.

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Tara is Biotactica's Vice President for Commercialization and a registered patent attorney who brings to Biotactica her comprehensive training and background in the life sciences. Her scientific work has been published in leading peer-reviewed publications such as Nature and Journal of Neuroscience. As a patent attorney, she has counseled clients in a wide range of life science technologies, including pharmaceuticals, medical devices, bioassays and materials including gene and protein isolation and purification methods, nucleic acid synthesis, RNAi molecules and related technology, viral vectors, and a wide range of other biotechnologies and medical innovations.

Tara graduated from Brown University with a major in Biomedical Ethics. She worked as a research assistant in the Hematology-Oncology Department at Rhode Island Hospital in Providence Rhode Island before moving to the University of Rochester School of Medicine where she earned her Ph.D. in Physiology under Dr. John H.R. Maunsell. After being awarded a National Research Service Award from the National Institutes of Health, she conducted postdoctoral research at Harvard University-Massachusetts General Hospital. She then earned her license as a patent agent and after earning her law degree magna cum laude from St. Louis University School of Law, became a patent attorney. Tara has counseled universities and both large and small corporations on various intellectual property matters, and comes to Biotactica from a prominent international law firm.

Selected publications include:

• Nealey, T.A. & Maunsell, J.H.R. (1994) Magnocellular and parvocellular contributions to the responses of neurons in macaque striate cortex. Journal of Neuroscience, 14, 2069-2079.
• Nealey T, Spires S, Eatock RA, Begenisich T. Potassium channels in squid neuron cell bodies: comparison to axonal channels. J Membr Biol. 1993 Feb;132(1):13-25.
• Merigan, W.H., Nealey, T.A., Maunsell, J.H.R. (1993) Visual effects of lesions of cortical area V2 in macaques. Journal of Neuroscience 13:3180-3191.
• Vincent P. Ferrera, Tara A. Nealey & John H. R. Maunsell Mixed parvocellular and magnocellular geniculate signals in visual area V4; Nature 358, 756 - 758 (27 August 1992)
• Maunsell, J.H.R., Sclar, G., Nealey, T.A., DePriest, D.D. (1991) Extraretinal representations in area V4 in the macaque monkey. Visual Neuroscience 7:561-573.
• Maunsell, J.H.R., Nealey, T.A., DePriest, D.D. (1990) Magnocellular and parvocellular contributions to responses in the middle temporal visual area (MT) of the macaque monkey. Journal of Neuroscience 10:3323-3334.
• Maunsell, J.H.R., Nealey, T.A., Sclar, G., DePriest, D.D. (1989) Representation of extraretinal information in monkey visual cortex (in) D. Lam (ed.) Proceedings of the Retinal Research Foundation Symposium 2:223-235.

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