Biocept-G Research, Development, and Marketing (folder 1 of 2), 1974–1978, 2003– 2011, undated

The Brij Saxena, PhD Papers include Saxena’s reprints, select correspondence and promotional materials, a digital photograph, and several items from his career. His published work includes seven bound volumes of reprints and abstracts dating from 1952 to 2007. The promotional materials date between 1974 and 1978 and relate to Biocept-G, a radioreceptor assay used to test for the human chorionic gonadotropin (hCG) and pregnancy, and include correspondence relating to Saxena’s research; press packets containing scholarly articles and newspaper clippings; a book review of Gonadotropins (Saxena, Brij, Beling, Carl G., and Gandy, Hortense M., eds. 1972. New York: Wiley-Interscience); and marketing materials aimed at medical professionals. The collection also includes a folder of loose correspondence between Saxena and Sunit Mukherjee, MNS from 1983 and 2001 concerning their mutual acquaintance with the late Subhash Mukherjee, PhD, who is remembered for creating the first child conceived by in-vitro fertilization.

Finally, the collection includes a Clear Plan Easy Fertility Monitor (circa 1999), an example of the kind of home fertility monitor and pregnancy test made possible by Saxena’s research; his undated business card; an undated digital photograph of Saxena at his desk at Weill Cornell Medicine; and Saxena’s personal copy of Gonadotropins (Saxena, Brij, Beling, Carl G., and Gandy, Hortense M., eds. 1972. New York: Wiley-Interscience), which collects the proceedings of the International Symposium on Gonadotropins from the previous year.

This collection does not include Saxena’s personal papers or original records from the majority of his career.