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Claude E. Gagna, PhD, is an associate professor in the Department of Life Sciences, School of Health Professionals, Behavior and Life Sciences, at the New York Institute of Technology in Old Westbury, NY. He received a Ph.D. Degree in Anatomy, with a minor in Biochemistry, from New York University. Dr. Gagna is an active professor in the biology department, contributing to both lecture and laboratory learning. Along with being a professor, Dr. Gagna focuses much of his time on research involving the knowledge of DNA and RNA structure and function. He was inducted the Inventor of the Year in the New Jersey Inventors Hall of Fame. Dr. Gagna was honored for his invention of novel technology to immobilize unaltered DNA or RNA molecules onto specially modified microscope slides used in basic biological research and drug efficacy testing. Dr. Gagna has been granted patents for his invention of a novel nucleic acid microarray in the United States and Japan. He will be receiving patents for his novel nucleic acid microarray in Europe and his novel chromatin immunoprecipitation microarray assay in the near future.

SELECTED ACADEMIC AND PROFESSIONAL HONORS AND AWARDS:

■   Winner of the “Fourth NANO 50 Awards – Technology Category” (NASA): 2008 ■   Nanotechnology Finalist – “Researcher of the Year” (Best of Small Technology Awards): 2007 ■   “Inventor of the Year”, New Jersey Inventors Hall of Fame – Research and Development Council of New Jersey: 2006 ■   Dean’s "Award for Outstanding Research", NYIT: 2004 and 2005 ■   “Standard of Excellence Award”,  New York College of Osteopathic Medicine,  NYIT: 2005 ■   Tenure and Promotion, NYIT: May 2005 ■   5th Milestone Anniversary, NYIT: 2004 ■   “Faculty Scholars Reception Award”,  NYIT: 2003, 2006, 2007 and 2008 ■   1st Place, NYU – Basic Medical Sciences, “Award for Outstanding Research”: 1988 ■   “Leonardo DaVinci Award for Achievement in Science”, Leonardo DaVinci Society: 1979

REFERENCES:

1. Patent US6936461 - Method for immobilizing multistranded nucleic ... Inventor: Claude Gagna Original Assignee: New York Institute of Technology Primary Examiner: Kenneth R. Horlick Attorney: Fulbright & Jaworski LLP ...

2. new jersey medical school - NJMS-UH Cancer Center - University of ... Jul 10, 2008 ... Mentors: W.C. Lambert, MD PhD, (Pathology) and Claude E. Gagna PhD, (New York Institute of Technology, Old Westbury, NY 11568) ...

3. Turned SunshineInto A Killing Force? - New Jersey Medical School ... and Claude Gagna, PhD, have investigated ... another research pioneer, Claude E. Gagna, PhD, who has been work- ing with them for more ...

4. Faculty Directory | Life Sciences | NYIT Claude Gagna, Ph.D., Associate Professor · Michael Hadjiargyrou, Ph.D., Professor and Chair · Charles Hummel, Ph.D., Associate Professor · Marianne Land ...

5. New Jersey Inventors Hall of Fame - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

6. Localization and quantification of intact, undamaged right-handed double-stranded B-DNA, and denatured single-stranded DNA in normal human epidermis and its effects on apoptosis and terminal differentiation (denucleation) | ResearchGate

7. Trichothiodystrophy - Landes Bioscience Madame Curie Database May 13, 2010 ... W. Clark Lambert, Claude E. Gagna and Muriel W. Lambert. Although the term, “ trichothiodystrophy” (TTD) refers to the hair anomalies in this ...

8. Advanced Techniques for Genomics and Proteomics: Transitional ... Jun 5, 2012 ... Claude E. Gagna · W. Clark Lambert · Peter C. Lambert. Genome sequences and proteomic data are becoming available to researchers for an ...

9. Abstract - Journal of Histochemistry & Cytochemistry Correspondence to: Dr. Claude E. Gagna, FAIC, CChem MRSC, ChE, New York Institute of Technology, New York College of Osteopathic Medicine, Bldg. #2, ...

10. Faculty/Staff Achievements | About | NYIT Claude E. Gagna, Ph.D., associate professor of life sciences and director of NYIT's biology laboratories, had his letter to the editor, "One Giant Leap for Data," ...