Human Papillomavirus

Biography

Ted E. Schutzbank, PhD received his BA in Biology from Temple University, an MS in bacteriology from Iowa State University, and his M.Phil and PhD in Microbiology under the mentorship of Dr. Harry Ginsberg at Columbia University. Dr. Schutzbank worked as a postdoctoral fellow in Dr. Arnold J. Levine’s Lab at the State University of New York, Stony Brook. His research interests lie in the area of Molecular Diagnostics as they pertain to infectious disease testing and more recently, human genomics. He has worked extensively in the development of real-time nucleic acid amplification assays for the qualitative and quantitative detection of a wide variety of organisms, to include bacterial and viral agents of human disease. Dr. Schutzbank has extensive experience in the laboratory diagnostic aspects of HIV/AIDS and was the primary investigator on an NIH grant to implement and staff a full service pediatric HIV diagnostics laboratory while he was on the faculty of the Children’s National Medical Center in Washington DC. Dr. Schutzbank has over 30 years of experience working in hospital-based and private reference clinical laboratories, as well as in the IVD R&D arena. He has consulted for several companies, to include Qiagen Inc. and Igen Inc., as well as for the United States Air Force, and the Venezuelan Ministry of Health (pre Chavez!). Currently Dr. Schutzbank is the Technical Director of Special Testing and Microbiology at St. John’s Hospital and Medical Center in Detroit, Michigan.

Research Interest

Molecular Diagnostics, Infectious Diseases, Genomics, Molecular Diagnostics, Assay Development, Biotechnology, Cancer, Life sciences, Clinical Research