Raj Bawa, MS, PhD, FAAN
President, Bawa Biotechnology Consulting LLC
Patent Agent/Advisor, Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute
Dr. Raj Bawa, a biochemist and microbiologist, is a registered patent agent licensed to practice before the US Patent and Trademark Office (PTO). He 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. Dr. Bawa has over fifteen years of patent experience. He has been a researcher for more than twenty years. Since 2002, Dr. Bawa has served as a technology and patent consultant to national and international biotechnology and pharmaceutical companies. Additionally, Dr. Bawa is Advisor to the Office of Technology Commercialization at Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute in Troy, New York where since 1998, he has taught numerous courses in biotechnology, HIV/AIDS, microbiology, immunology and biodefense as a Visiting/Adjunct Professor. He is also Adjunct Professor of Natural and Applied Sciences at Northern Virginia Community College in Annandale, Virginia. Dr. Raj Bawa is President of Bawa Biotechnology Consulting LLC, a biotechnology and patent firm with offices in Ashburn, Virginia and Schenectady, New York. Previously he held various positions at the PTO, including Primary Examiner; Supervisory Patent Examiner (acting); and Instructor at the US Patent Academy. Dr. Bawa is the author of 45 scientific, legal and business publications. He is a Fellow of the American Academy of Nanomedicine; a Life Member of Sigma Xi, the Research Honor Society; and serves on the Global Advisory Council of the World Future Society. Presently, he serves on the editorial boards of the peer-reviewed journals, International Journal of Nanomedicine and Nanotechnology Law and Business. He is Associate Editor of the peer-reviewed journal, Nanomedicine: Nanotechnology, Biology and Medicine. He is co-editor of a new textbook titled Nanotechnology Law to be published in 2007 by Law Journal Press. Some of Dr. Bawa's awards include: Talbot Award of the US Biophysical Society (1988); Research Fellowship and Teaching Assistantship from Rensselaer (1985-90); Sigma Xi Travel Awards (1988, 1990); 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.