Tanya Leavy, Ph.D.

Associate
Registered Patent Attorney

212.704.6199

More ways to contact Tanya Leavy, Ph.D.

Overview
Insights
Awards

Tanya is an associate in the firm’s Health Care + Life Sciences Department, based in the New York office. Her practice emphasizes U.S. and international patent strategy and procurement as well as due diligence counseling. Tanya has extensive training in the pharmaceutical, biotechnical, and chemical sciences. Her doctoral research at the University of California, Berkeley, focused on chemical synthesis, inhibitor design, assay development, and enzymology. Tanya has also participated in research assignments at Merck & Co., Inc. and Brookhaven National Laboratory.

Additionally, Tanya is the recipient of numerous merit-based distinctions, including a National Institute of Health (NIH) Graduate Research Fellowship and the Merck Science Initiative Award.

  • Best Lawyers in America®: Ones to Watch: Life Sciences Practice (2026)
Overview

Tanya is an associate in the firm’s Health Care + Life Sciences Department, based in the New York office. Her practice emphasizes U.S. and international patent strategy and procurement as well as due diligence counseling. Tanya has extensive training in the pharmaceutical, biotechnical, and chemical sciences. Her doctoral research at the University of California, Berkeley, focused on chemical synthesis, inhibitor design, assay development, and enzymology. Tanya has also participated in research assignments at Merck & Co., Inc. and Brookhaven National Laboratory.

Additionally, Tanya is the recipient of numerous merit-based distinctions, including a National Institute of Health (NIH) Graduate Research Fellowship and the Merck Science Initiative Award.

Insights

Articles + Publications

Federal Circuit Ruling Broadens Reach of Prosecution History Estoppel to Include Canceled Claims

See all insights from Tanya Leavy, Ph.D.

Awards
  • Best Lawyers in America®: Ones to Watch: Life Sciences Practice (2026)

Top areas of focus

Education

  • Fordham University School of Law, J.D., cum laude, 2020, Ruth Whitehead Whaley Scholar
  • University of California, Berkeley, Ph.D., chemistry , Chemistry
  • Haverford College, B.S., chemistry

Bar Admissions

  • U.S. Patent and Trademark Office
  • New York
  • Co-author, “Federal Circuit Ruling Broadens Reach of Prosecution History Estoppel to Include Canceled Claims,” Troutman Pepper Locke, July 25, 2025.
  • Barb, A.; Leavy, T. M.; Hangauer, M.; Bertozzi, C. R.; Raetz, R. “Uridine-Based Inhibitors as New Leads for Antibiotics Targeting Escherichia coli LpxC” Biochemistry, 2009, 48, 3068-3077.
  • Leavy, T. M.; Bertozzi, C. R. “A high-throughput assay for O-GlcNAc transferase detects primary sequence preferences in peptide substrates.” Biorg. Med. Chem. Lett. 2007, 17, 3851-3854.
  • Shearer, J.; Jackson, H. L.; Schweitzer, D.; Rittenberg, D. K.; Leavy, T. M.; Kaminsky, W.; Scarrow, R. C. “The first example of a nitrile hydratase model complex that reversibly binds nitriles.” J. Am. Chem. Soc. 2002, 124, 11417-11428.