Raj Bawa

Raj Bawa, MS, PhD, is president of Bawa Biotech LLC, a biotech/pharma consultancy and patent law firm based in Ashburn, Virginia, USA, that he founded in 2002. Trained as a biochemist and microbiologist, he is an inventor, entrepreneur, professor, and registered patent agent licensed to practice before the US Patent & Trademark Office. He is currently a scientific advisor to Teva Pharmaceutical Industries, Ltd. (Israel), a visiting research scholar at the Pharmaceutical Research Institute of Albany College of Pharmacy (Albany, New York), and vice president and chief intellectual property officer at Guanine, Inc. (Rensselaer, New York). He has previously served as a principal investigator of National Cancer Institute SBIRs and continues to be a scientific reviewer for both the NIH and NSF. He recently (2017–2019) served as principal investigator of a CDC grant to develop an assay for Carbapenem-resistant Enterobacteriaceae. Since 2004, he has been an adjunct professor in the biology department and the Extended Learning Institute of Northern Virginia Community College (Annandale, Virginia), where he also teaches human anatomy and physiology to pre-nursing students. In the 1990s, Dr. Bawa held various positions at the US Patent & Trademark Office, including primary patent examiner from 1996–2002. Previously, he was an adjunct professor at Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute in Troy, New York from 1998–2018, where he received his doctoral degree in three years (biophysics/biochemistry).