Mike Williams graduated from the University of Manitoba in 1988 with the degree of Bachelor of Science, Genetics (Honours) and graduated from Texas A&M University in College Station, Texas with a Doctorate in Biochemistry and Biophysics in 1994. Following graduation, Mike was employed as a Post-Doctoral Fellow with the National Institute of Child Health and Human Development at the National Institutes of Health in Bethesda, Maryland. In 1996, Mike joined Ade & Company as a technical consultant and successfully completed the Canadian Patent Agent examination, so as to become a registered Patent Agent in Canada and USA in 1998. Mike's area of practice is biotechnology and he has prepared and successfully prosecuted patent applications in the USA, Canada, and foreign countries for pharmaceutical compounds, nutraceuticals, lotions, chemical compositions, medical devices, diagnostic methods and recombinant DNA patents.