Dr. Diament has been a practicing patent attorney since 2008. Prior to becoming an attorney, he earned his Ph.D. in Genetics from the University of California Davis, where his research focused on the genetics of obesity and other metabolic disorders. After his Ph.D., he completed a post-doctoral fellowship at UCLA in nephrology, focusing on the genetics of polycystic kidney disease. During his undergraduate studies at UC Berkeley, he double majored in Molecular and Cell Biology, and Religious Studies. He also participated in gene mapping research as part of the Human Genome Project.