Dr. Alba Folgueiras González

‚A fully dedicated and very experienced team assisting both in terms of legal strategy and competencies than technical support‘.

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Trainee Patent Attorney

Alba is currently training to become a Dutch and European patent attorney in the field of Chemistry, with a specific focus on life sciences, particularly pharmaceutical sciences and biotechnology. She possesses a broad understanding of various subjects, including virology, microbiology, biotechnology, synthetic biology, next-generation sequencing, bioinformatics, vaccinology, and biological chemistry.

Alba holds an MSc in Synthetic Biology and Biotechnology from the University of Edinburgh, where she specialized in polymer production using engineered bacteria. Prior to joining HOYNG ROKH MONEGIER, Alba was a Marie Skłodowska-Curie PhD fellow at an international pharmaceutical company. Her research focused on the discovery and characterization of novel viruses affecting livestock populations. She earned her PhD in Medicine in 2024, with a thesis entitled „Virus Discovery in Farm Animals: Uncovering Hidden Viral Threats and Their Role in Disease.“

During her research, Alba specialized in metagenomics, diagnostics, vaccine development, and genetic engineering. She has (co-)authored several publications in renowned virology and life science journals.

VERÖFFENTLICHUNGEN
- Procedural aspects and confidentiality in FRAND cases – UPC Case Comment – Co-author
- First FRAND decisions by the Unified Patent Court – UPC Case Comment – Co-author
- Folgueiras González, Alba. “Virus discovery in farm animals: Uncovering hidden viral threats and their role in disease”, PhD Thesis, ISBN: 9789493391062
- Folgueiras-González, Alba, et al., “Dynamics of the enteric virome in a swine herd affected by non-PCV2/PRRSV postweaning wasting syndrome”, Viruses 13, no. 12: 2538
- Folgueiras-González, Alba, et al., “Atypical Porcine Pestivirus circulation and molecular evolution within an affected swine herd” Viruses 12, no. 10: 1080.
- Folgueiras-González, Alba, et al., “A versatile processing workflow to enable pathogen detection in clinical samples from organs using VIDISCA” Diagnostics 11, no. 5: 791.
- Kinsella, Cormac M., Pauline Dianne Santos, Ignacio Postigo-Hidalgo, Alba Folgueiras-González, Tim Casper Passchier, Kevin P. Szillat, Joyce Odeke Akello, Beatriz Álvarez-Rodríguez, and Joan Martí-Carreras. 2020. “Preparedness needs research: how fundamental science and international collaboration accelerated the response to COVID-19”. PLOS Pathogens 16 (10): e1008902.