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Alice Long

Scientific Advisor (Non-Legal)

Madison, NJ
One Giralda Farms
Madison, NJ 07940
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Experience

Alice Long is a Scientific Advisor (Non-Legal) in the firm’s Hatch-Waxman Group, and specializes in assisting attorneys with scientific issues concerning validity, infringement, and patentability in the areas of pharmaceutical science and chemistry. She is also involved in opinion work and review of discovery documents during patent litigation.

Ms. Long recently received her a Ph.D. in Chemistry from Princeton University. She was the first-author on Nature publication describing a new synthetic strategy for polycyclic molecules. In addition, she contributed to projects exploring chromatin occupancy, protein-RNA interactions, and chemical probe development. 

Prior to Windels Marx, in addition to her academic pursuits, Ms. Long worked at a prominent pharmaceutical company as an Encoded-Library Technology (ELT) Co-op Intern. Her work involved: synthesized and screened chemical libraries on DNA scaffolds; and collaboration with cross-functional teams to develop novel building blocks for machine learning applications.

Technical Experience

  • Organic synthesis (multi-step, semi-saturated and polycyclic molecules)
  • Proximity labeling (μMap)
  • DNA-encoded library (DEL) design and on-DNA chemistry
  • Analytical tools: NMR, LC-MS, UV-vis, HPLC
  • Scientific writing, patent literature review, structure-activity relationship (SAR) analysis

Publications

  • Couple-close construction of polycyclic rings from diradicals - Long, A*., Oswood, C.J*., Kelly, C.B, Bryan, M.C; MacMillan, D. W. C. Nature 2024, 628, 326–332
  • μMap proximity labeling of mutant TP53 reveals novel mRNA metabolic interactors - Long, A., MacMillan, D. W. C., Seath, C.P. Manuscript in Preparation
  • Semi-saturated ring formation via couple-close strategy - Xie, J.X., Zhao, W., Long, A., C.J., Kelly, C.B, Bryan, M.C; MacMillan, D. W. C. Manuscript in Preparation
  • Mesoscale proximity labeling to study macro changes to chromatin occupancy - Douglas, C., Samowitz, P., Tong, F.F., Long, A., Bradley, C.M., Radnai, L. MacMillan, D. W. C., Miller, C.A., Rumbaugh, G., Seath, C.P. Science in revision. Biorxiv: https://www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1101/2025.03.13.643041v1

Awards

  • 2025 Johnson and Johnson Discovery Chemistry Graduate Research Symposium, Johnson and Johnson
  • 2025 Genentech Graduate Student Symposium in Chemical Research, Genentech
  • 2023 Edward C. Taylor Fellowship, Princeton University
  • 2022 NSF Honourable Mention, Princeton University

Practices

Education

  • Ph.D., Chemistry, Princeton University, 2025
  • B.A., Chemistry, High Honors, Emory University, 2020