Raj Bawa, PhD, MD, is president of Bawa Biotech LLC (founded 2002), a biotech/pharma consultancy and patent law firm based in Ashburn, Virginia. Trained as a microbiologist and biochemist, he is an inventor, author, entrepreneur, professor, and registered patent agent (since 2002) licensed to practice before the US Patent & Trademark Office. He is currently scientific advisor to Teva Pharmaceutical Industries, Israel (since 2010); visiting research scholar at Pharmaceutical Research Institute of Albany Pharmacy, Albany, New York; and full professor (adjunct) at NOVA in Annandale, Virginia (since 2004). He is VP/chief IP officer at Guanine, Inc., in Rensselaer, New York (since 2017), a company focused on rapid, accurate detection of infective pathogens. Dr. Bawa has served as a principal investigator of various NCI research grants, and most recently as a principal investigator of a CDC grant to develop an assay for carbapenemase resistant bacteria. Previously, he was an adjunct professor at Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute, Troy, New York, from 1998 to 2018. He held various positions at the US Patent Office, including primary examiner from 1996 to 2002. He earned a BSc (Honors School) in microbiology, MS in cancer biology, PhD in biophysics/biochemistry, and MD. Currently, he is a life member of Sigma Xi, cochair of the nanotech and precision medicine committees of the American Bar Association and founding director of the American Society for Nanomedicine (established 2008). He has authored over 100 publications, edited 10 texts, and serves on the editorial boards of numerous peer-reviewed journals, including serving as an associate editor of Nanomedicine (Elsevier).
Gerald F. Audette, PhD, has been a faculty member at York University in Toronto, Canada, in the Department of Chemistry since 2006. Currently he is associate professor in the department and a member of the Centre for Research on Biomolecular Interactions at York University. Dr. Audette is the co-editor of volumes 1-4 of the Pan Stanford Series on Nanomedicine and is a subject editor of structural chemistry and crystallography for the journal FACETS.
