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Kenneth D. Cole (Assoc)

Guest Researcher

Research Interests and projects

  • Improving the quality and confidence of measurements of biomarkers for early detection of cancer by working with stakeholders and scientific collaborators.
  • Development of fully consented matched tumor/normal cell lines for the new generation of reference materials
  • Reference lab for the Early Detection Research Network (NCI) and collaborations with NCI laboratories
  • Foundation NIH Biomarkers Consortium Project: Development of Reference Materials for circulating tumor DNA
  • Methods for quantification of immunohistochemistry (IHC) assays including harmonization of measurements of check point inhibitor antibodies used in cancer immunotherapy
  • Development of assays for Cell Line Authentication, short tandem repeat DNA multiplex PCR assay development for African green monkey, mouse, and Chinese hamster cell lines.

Postdoctoral research fellowships for U.S. citizens are available at NIST through the National Research Council (http://www.nist.gov/iaao/postdoc.cfm).

Reference materials

  • SRM  2373 Standard Reference Material measured by quantitative PCR, certified for ERBB2 (HER2) gene copy number
  • RM 8366 Reference Material 8366 measured using dPCR, certified for MET and EGFR gene copy numbers.
  • SRM 2082 Standard Reference Material, pathlength standard for measurements in the UV for microvolume spectrophotometers
  • Development of a reference material for a mouse allelic ladder to be used for allele call determination in mouse cell line authentication
  • Development of a reference material for methylation biomarkesr  in cancer

 

Patents

  • Almeida, Jamie L., Cole, Kenneth D. Mouse Cell Line Authentication. US 9,556,482 B2, United States Patent and Trademark Office, 31 January 2017.
  • Almeida, Jamie L., Cole, Kenneth D. Mouse Cell Line Authentication. US 2017/0101677 A1, United States Patent Application Publication, 13 April 2017.
  • Cole, Kenneth D., Cabezas Jr., Heriberto Electrochromatography Apparatus U.S. #5,611,904
  • Cole, Kenneth D. Concentration and Size-fractionation of Nucleic Acids and Viruses in Porous Media, U.S. #5,707,850
  • Cole, Kenneth D. Chemically Reversible Gels for Electrophoretic Separations of DNA and Proteins, U.S. #6,203,680

Consensus Standards

  • ASN-0003 Species-Level Identification of Animal Cells through Mitochondrial Cytochrome c Oxidase Subunit 1 (CO1) DNA Barcodes- member of working group
  • ASTM E2800 - 11 Standard Practice for Characterization of Bacillus Spore Suspensions for Reference Materials.  Chaired working committee
  • ASTM E2805 - 11 Standard Practice for Measurement of the Biological Activity of Ricin. Chaired working committee

 

Awards

  • NIST Judson C. French Award, “for development of copy number standard reference material SRM 2373 for diagnosing cancer”, 2016
  • US Department of Commerce Bronze Medal Award, “for development of a method for mouse cell line authentication”, 2015
  • NIST, Department of Commerce, Bronze Medal “for Electrophoretic DNA Separations”, 1998

 

Publications

Metrological Tools for the Reference Materials and Reference Instruments of the NIST Material Measurement Laboratory

Author(s)
Carlos R. Beauchamp, Johanna Camara, Jennifer Carney, Steven J. Choquette, Kenneth D. Cole, Paul C. DeRose, David L. Duewer, Michael Epstein, Margaret Kline, Katrice Lippa, Enrico Lucon, John L. Molloy, Michael Nelson, Karen W. Phinney, Maria Polakoski, Antonio Possolo, Lane C. Sander, John E. Schiel, Katherine E. Sharpless, Michael R. Winchester, Donald Windover
The National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST), formerly the National Bureau of Standards, was established by the U.S. Congress in 1901 and charged

Reference standards for accurate validation and optimization of assays that determine integrated Lentiviral vector copy number in transduced cells

Author(s)
Barbara S. Paugh, Lajos Baranyi, Andre Roy, Hua-Jun He, Lindsay Harris, Kenneth D. Cole, Caroline Raimund, Patricia S. Langan, Moria Artlip, Srikanta Jana, Rimas J. Orentas, Sheng Lin-Gibson, Winfried Krueger, Boro Dropuli?
Lentiviral vectors (LV) have emerged as a robust technology for therapeutic gene delivery into human cells as advanced medicinal products. As these products are

Metrological Tools for the Reference Materials and Reference Instruments of the NIST Material Measurement Laboratory

Author(s)
Carlos R. Beauchamp, Johanna Camara, Jennifer Carney, Steven J. Choquette, Kenneth D. Cole, Paul C. DeRose, David L. Duewer, Michael Epstein, Margaret C. Kline, Katrice Lippa, Enrico Lucon, Karen W. Phinney, Maria Polakoski, Antonio Possolo, Katherine E. Sharpless, John R. Sieber, Blaza Toman, Michael R. Winchester, Donald Windover
The National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST), formerly the National Bureau of Standards, was established by the U.S. Congress in 1901 and charged

Patents (2018-Present)

Mouse Cell Line Authentication

NIST Inventors
Jamie Almeida and Kenneth D. Cole
A method, kit and primers for determining alleles present in a DNA sample that is sourced from either a mouse or a cell line derived from a mouse. A set of STR marker loci are selected that can be amplified together in a multiplex amplification reaction. The set of STR marker loci are selected from
Created April 2, 2019, Updated December 8, 2022