Raj Bawa, M.S., Ph.D.
Patent Agent, Bawa Biotechnology Consulting, Ashburn, Virginia, USA
Adjunct Associate Professor, Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute, Troy, New York, USA
Senior Scientist, SynerGene Therapeutics, Potomac, MD
Dr. Raj Bawa is President of Bawa Biotechnology Consulting LLC, a biotechnology and patent law firm founded in 2002 and based in Ashburn, Virginia. He is a biochemist and microbiologist by training and 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. Currently, Dr. Bawa is an Adjunct Associate Professor at Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute in Troy, New York as well as an Adjunct Professor of Natural and Applied Sciences at the Extended Learning Institute of Northern Virginia Community College in Annandale, Virginia. He serves as a Senior Scientist at SynerGene Therapeutics in Potomac, MD and is the Principle Investigator of two NCI/SBIR contracts. Previously he held various positions at the PTO, including Primary Examiner (6 years); Supervisory Patent Examiner (acting); and Instructor at the US Patent Academy.
Dr. Bawa has served as an NIH grant reviewer and participated in NSF’s merit review process. He has authored 65 scientific, legal and business publications and has presented at over 100 conferences and symposia worldwide. He is a Life Member of Sigma Xi, Founding Director and Secretary (acting) of the American Society for Nanomedicine, Advisory Board Member for the Albany Law School Center for Law & Innovation and serves on the Global Advisory Council of the World Future Society.
Presently, Dr Bawa serves on the editorial boards of the following peer-reviewed journals: International Journal of Nanomedicine, Cancer Nanotechnology: Basic, Translational and Clinical Research, Recent Patents on Biomedical Engineering, Nanotechnology Law and Business. He is an Associate Editor of two peer-reviewed journals, Journal of Bionanoscience and Nanomedicine: NBM. He is a Co-Editor of a book titled Clinical Nanomedicine - from Bench to Bedside (Pan Stanford Publishing, 2010), Nanotechnology – Law, Business and Commercialization (Pan Stanford Publishing, 2010) and the Section Editor of the Biomedical Engineering Handbook, 4th edition (CRC Press/Taylor Francis, 2011). His biographical record appears in the 2009 edition of Marquis Who's Who in the World. Some of Dr. Bawa’s awards include: Innovations Prize from the Institution of Mechanical Engineers, London, UK (2009); Appreciation Award from the Undersecretary of Commerce, Washington, DC (2001); Talbot Travel Award of the US Biophysical Society (1988); Research Fellowship and Teaching Assistantship from Rensselaer (1985-90); Director’s Award (2001) and Key Award (2005) from Rensselaer’s Office of Alumni Relations.
