Anna Pociu is a junior at Northeastern University, majoring in Biochemistry with a minor in Business Administration. She is currently a Digital Writer for the Northeastern University Undergraduate Law Review and previously served as a Staff Writer for the print edition. As a Staff Writer, she published a research note titled The Hidden Research Regulator: How Federal Funding Shapes Academic Freedom, where she explores the legal doctrine and current policy directives building to the ability of federal funding and associated political motives to latently regulate academic freedom, institutional directions, and, by extension, American innovation. Currently, she is drafting a note on the rise of patent assertion entities and implications for innovation in biotechnology.

Anna’s legal interests center around intellectual property law, specifically patent litigation and prosecution, where she is passionate about exploring protections for innovation within the pharmaceuticals and biotechnology sectors. She previously completed a Process Development co-op with Allonnia, an environmental biotechnology spin-out of Ginkgo Bioworks. This summer, she is excited to dive into the pharmaceutical world at Alnylam Pharmaceuticals, where she will join the R&D team exploring lipid nanoparticle research.

Outside of academics and research, Anna can be found running on the Charles River Greenway (training for her next half-marathon), exploring yoga studios around Boston, museum hopping, and traveling as much as possible.