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Curriculum Vitae - Thor W. Nilsen

Education:

1983 B.S. (College Scholar) Cornell University

Professional Experience:

1983-1984 Research Asst.
Trudeau Institute, Saranac Lake, NY USA
1984-1986 Research Asst.
The New York Blood Center, New York, NY USA
1986- Member of Board of Directors
Moore Environmental Management, Exton, PA USA
1986- President - Research Director
Polyprobe Inc., Philadelphia, PA USA

Honors & Societies:

LVMII Science Prize "Vinci d'excellence" "Leonarddo daVinci Prize" 1996

Bausch & Lomb Science Medal 1979

Member:

American Association for Clinical Chemistry

American Association for the Advancement of Science

New York Academy of Science

International Union of Pure and Applied Chemistry

American Chemical Society

Sigma Xi

Water Environment Federation

Grant Awards:

NIH Phase I SBIRGrant, Sept. 30.11993

Dendritic Nucleic Acid Probes

NIH Phase 2 SBIR Grant, Sept. 1996

Dendritic Nucleic Acid Probes- FISH

Invited Speaker:

1997 Gene Therapy & Molecular Biology, Capsis, Crete, Greece

1997 ACS National Meeting San Francisco

1996 9th International Conference on Iluman Genetics Rio de Janeiro

Patents:

US Patent # 5,175,270 - Issued Dec.29, 1992

US Patent # 5,484,904 - Issued Jan. 16, 1996

US Patent # 5,487,973 - Issued Jan. 30, 1996

9 Pending Patent Applications

Publications:

Rubinstein, P., Stevens, C., Taylor, P., Gallo, R., Gold, J.M., Lee, Y. S., Nilsen, T. W., Radioimmunoassay and Enzyme Linked Immunoassay of Antibodies to the Core Protein (P24) of Human T-lymphotropic Virus, J. of Virological Methods, 11, 67-83 (1985)

Neurath, A.R., Strick, N., Lee, Y. S., Nilsen, T.W., Baker, L., Sprous, P., Rubenstein, PI, Taylor, P., Stevens, C., Gold, J.M., Radioimmunoassay and Enzyme Linked Immunoassay of Antibodies Directed Against Lymphadenopathy-Associated Virus Proteins Larger than the Core Protein (P24), J of Virological Methods, 12, 85-92 (1985)

Nilsen, T.W., Grayzel, J. Prensky. Dendritic Nucleic Acid Structures, J. Theor. Biol, (1997) 187, 273-284

Abstracts:

Vogelbacker, 11.11, Getts, R.C., Tian, N.m Labaczewski, R., Nilsen, T.W., DNA Dendrimers: Assembly and Signal Amplification, ACS-PMSE, San Francisoco, CA, April 1997

Getts, R.C., Tian, N., Grayzel, J., Nilsen, T.W., Covalent Hyperbranched Superstructures, The San Diego Conference: The Genetic Revolution, San Diego, CA, November 1994

Vogelbacker, H.H., Grayzel, J., Nilsen, T.W., Dendrimer Signal Enhancement for Detection of HIV Sequence, The San Diego Conference: The Genetic Revolution, San Diego, CA, November 1994

Nilsen, T.W.,Lee, J., Morganstern, R., Grayzel, J., Nucleic Acid Dendrimers, The San Diego Conference on Nucleic Acids: Beyond DNA Probes, San Diego, CA November 1993

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