Bishwajit Nag
Founder & CEO
About Us
NRL (Nag Research Laboratories) is a California based innovative IP driven company focusing on new drug discovery, novel biotechnology products. The company also offers pre-clinical research services and a unique line of herbal and nutraceuticals. NRL's corporate offices are located in Fremont, CA, USA with subsidiary branches in Bangalore, India. NRL's team consists of highly specialized scientists with over 30 years of experience in biotechnology product development and drug discovery research activities. NRL operates it's activities through four major divisions:
NRL-Biotechnology develops proprietary novel kits and reagents utilized by academic, biotechnology and Pharmaceutical industries in the fields of protein biochemistry, molecular biology, immunology and drug discovery research. Currently the company has products for Electrophoresis, Electro-blotting, Protein Biochemistry and Proteomics. NRL has introduced over 20 new products and markets these products directly or through distributors world-wide. All products in the Biotechnology division are discovered, developed and manufactured by NRL in its USA (California) location.
Genvivo specializes in pre-clinical assessments and evaluation of novel compounds or protein based biologics as therapeutic agents for the treatment of diabetes, inflammation, cancer, neurological and metabolic diseases. The company's senior leadership has over 30 years of drug discovery experience in small molecules and recombinant protein biologics utilizing conventional, gene knock-out, orthotopic, xenograft and transgenic animal models. Genvivo offer over 100 animal models along with complimentary services such as cell based preclinical efficacy testing, pharmacokinetics studies, pharmacodynamics, and pre-GLP toxicology testing in vitro and in vivo.
Herbalyn is a subsidiary of NRL that develops unique proprietary herbal products with enhanced efficacy of natural product extracts. Herbalyn has developed a unique patentable line of products that combines natural products with a propietary excipient for enhanced efficacy. Currently the NRL-Herbals division has over 200 new lines of alternative medicines spanning major therapeutic areas such as general health care, chronic diseases, cosmetics, sports medicine and nutrition. Herbalyn's strength includes advanced in vivo studies, formal toxicological evaluations, and clinical trials with patentable products.
Renovel is an integrated pharmaceutics drug discovery company focused on the discovery and development of natural product based human therapeutics to fill unmet medical needs. The mission is to utilize its innovative Natural Product Creative Compound (NPCC) technology to rapidly identify single molecular entities isolated from Indian medicinal plants into safe and effective medicines. We have a pipeline of patened small molecules as pre-clinical drug candidates for the treatment of a wide range of human diseases including metabolic diseases (Diabetes, Obesity, Hyperlipidemia), inflammatory diseases (Rheumatoid Arthritis, IBD, Psoriasis), central nervous system disorders (Multiple Sclerosis and Alzheimer) and Cancer (breast cancer, lung cancer, prostate cancer).
Dr. Bishwajit Nag is the Founder and current CEO of NRL where he is involved in developing new generation of biotechnology research products for proteomics, genomics and immunology. Prior to that, he was the Founder and CEO of BEXEL Pharmaceuticals Inc., CA, (2002-2007), a joint venture drug discovery company in partnership with Orchid Chemicals & Pharmaceuticals of Chennai, India, where he also served as Orchid's board of director from 2002-2007. From 1996-2000 Dr. Nag served as the founder and chief scientific officer (CSO) at Calyx Therapeutics Inc., CA, a technology based small molecule drug discovery company for the treatment of Diabetes and Inflammation.
He served as the Director of Research & Development at Anergen Inc. from 1988-1995, a NASDAQ-listed corporation (symbol: ANRG) later acquired by Corixa Corporation of Seatle, WA. At Anergen, he was involved in developing recombinant proteins based biologicals for the treatment of a number of autoimmune diseases such as multiple sclerosis (MS), rheumatoid arthritis (RA), Type I diabetes and myasthenia gravis (MG) in collaboration with Novo-Nordisk, Ekzo-Nobel and Zymogenetics Inc. Before joining Anergen Inc., Dr. Nag served as a senior scientist in the development of the recombinant tissue plasminogen activator (TPA) at Berlex Biosciences in collaboration with Abbott Laboratories.
Dr. Nag received his B.Sc. with Honors in 1977 (Biology/Chemistry), M.Sc. Biochemistry in 1979 and Ph.D. in Biochemistry in 1984 from Banaras Hindu University, India. Dr. Nag's Ph.D. dissertation was carried out in close association with Late Prof. D.P. Burma and Late Noble Laureate Dr. Severo Ochoa, where his focus was involved in ribosomal RNAs and mechanism of protein synthesis. From 1984 to 1986, he was the NIH post-doctoral fellow at Biological Chemistry Department, University of California, Davis, CA with Prof. Robert R. Traut where he was involved in developing over 20 different monoclonal antibodies against ribosomal proteins. Dr. Nag has established extensive scientific collaborations with Stanford University CA, University of California Los Angeles, Kennedy Institute of Rheumatology London, Max-Plank Institute Germany and Vanderbilt University, Nashville TN during his 25 years of career. Dr. Nag's diverse experience of exclusive new drug discovery include recombinant proteins, monoclonal antibodies, small molecules and natural product based rationally designed molecules.
Dr. Nag held several board of directors positions such as Lablogix Inc., USA (1992-1996), Calyx Therapeutics Inc., USA (1996-2000), BEXEL Pharmaceuticals Inc., USA (2002-2007), BEXEL Biotechnology Inc., USA (1996-2007), Orchid Chemicals & Pharmaceuticals Ltd., India (2002-2007) and Orchid Research Laboratories Ltd., India (2005-2007). His scientific entrepreneurship and business experience include: Launching technology based companies, Raising venture capital funds, Developing drugs from discovery to Phase II clinical trials, Filing INDs with US-FDA and European regulatory agencies, Licensing new drugs to major pharmaceuticals companies, IPO-listing to NASDAQ, Merger and Acquisitions.
Dr. Nag has authored over 200 peer-reviewed scientific publications/abstracts and is an inventor of over 100 US and international patents in the field of biotechnology, molecular biology and new drug discoveries. He has received several international honors and awards during his career including American Medal of Honor in 2001 and United States National Leadership award in 2003 from the President of the United States.
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