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DR. RAJ BAWA
Raj Bawa, MS, Ph.D., a biochemist and microbiologist, is President
of Bawa Biotechnology
Consulting LLC, a biotechnology and patent law firm founded in 2002 and
based in Ashburn, Virginia. He is a registered patent agent licensed to
practice before the US Patent and Trademark Office (PTO) and specializes
in all aspects of biotechnology, nanotechnology and pharmaceutical
patent law, including prosecution, patent strategy, application
drafting, prior art searching, freedom-to-operate searching and
technology research opinions.
Raj has over 16 years
of patent
experience. He has been a researcher for more than twenty years. Since
2002, he has served as a technology and patent consultant to
national and international biotechnology and pharmaceutical companies.
Currently, he is an Adjunct Associate Professor at Rensselaer
Polytechnic Institute in Troy, New York, where since 1998, he has
lectured in numerous courses, including biotechnology, HIV/AIDS,
microbiology, immunology, and biodefense. Additionally, since 2003, he
has been an Adjunct Professor of Natural and Applied Sciences at the
Extended Learning Institute of Northern Virginia Community College in
Annandale, Virginia.
Previously he held various positions
at the PTO,
including Primary Examiner (6 years), Supervisory Patent Examiner
(acting), and Instructor at the US Patent Academy. He has served
as a NIH grant reviewer, participated in NSF's merit review process and
reviewed classified grant proposals from the Science Centers Program of
the US Department of State. He is the author of over 50 scientific,
legal, and business publications. He is a Life Member of Sigma Xi, a
Fellow and Board Member of the American Academy of Nanomedicine, and
serves on the Global Advisory Council of the World Future
Society.
Presently, Raj serves on the editorial boards of the peer-reviewed
journals
International Journal of Nanomedicine and
Nanotechnology Law and Business. He is an Associate Editor
of
the peer-reviewed journal,
Nanomedicine: Nanotechnology, Biology and Medicine. He is
co-editor
of
the textbook titled Nanotechnology Law to be published in 2008 by
American Law Media. His biographical record appears in Marquis Who's
Who in America (2007) and Marquis Who's Who in the World
(2008).
Some
of his awards include: Talbot Travel Award of the US Biophysical
Society (1988); Research Fellowship and Teaching Assistantship from
Rensselaer (1985-90); Appreciation Award from the Under Secretary of
Commerce, US Department of Commerce (2001); Service Recognition from the
American Society for Microbiology (2006); Director's Award (2001) and
Key Award (2005) from Rensselaer's Office of Alumni Relations.
Raj authored
PharmaMedDevice 2007: Issues in nanodrug delivery and personalized
medicine,
Patents and Nanomedicine, and
Nanotechnology Patenting in the US,
and coauthored
The carbon nanotube patent
landscape in nanomedicine: an
Expert opinion,
Emerging Issues in Nanomedicine and Ethics,
The Ethical Dimensions
of Nanomedicine,
Recent Advances in Basic and Clinical
Nanomedicine,
Strategies for Resolving Patent Disputes Over Nanoparticle Drug
Delivery
Systems, and
Protecting new ideas and inventions in nanomedicine with
patents.
Raj earned his BSc in Microbiology with honors at Panjab University in
1985, his MS in Biology at Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute, Troy, New
York
in 1987, and his Ph.D. in Biology at Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute,
Troy,
New York in 1990.
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