Patent Portfolio

Višnja Popović serves as the European Patent Attorney and IP Manager at the VIB-KU Leuven Center for Brain & Disease Research. In this role, she is responsible for patentability assessments, as well as drafting and prosecuting patent applications through to grant. She also monitors and analyzes existing intellectual property rights within the center’s technological fields.

Beyond patent management, Višnja develops IP strategies and advises Principal Investigators on potential routes for valorization. She represents the center in negotiations with companies, ensuring that intellectual property proposals serve the interests of the researchers, the center, and VIB as a whole.

The patent families relate to identifying targets, pathological hallmarks, and diagnostic tools for wide group of neuronal and brain diseases, as well as biologics capable of acting thereon and specific delivery constructs. The portfolio further concerns aspects of pathological protein characteristics, such as aggregation and misfolding, and well as targeting specific receptor and/or ion channel functions in living systems.

Want to know more? Contact Višnja.