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Simona Patange (Fed)

Biologist

Dr. Simona Patange is a Biologist in the Biosystems and Biomaterials Division, NIST Material Measurement Laboratory. Her projects focus on detection and quantification of genome editing outcomes, with a particular emphasis on single-cell measurements. She coordinates projects on cell-based specificity measurements for the NIST Genome Editing Program and NIST Genome Editing Consortium

 

RESEARCH AREAS

  • CRISPR/Cas editing systems
  • Single-cell manipulation & measurement technologies
  • Genome editing measurement assurance
  • NIST Genome in a Bottle cell characterization measurements

 

PROFESSIONAL ACTIVITIES

  • Technical Reviewer, Small Business Innovation Research (SBIR) Program (website)
  • MML Accolades Review Committee, 2022-2024

 

NIST PROJECT PAGES

 

Awards

  • Technical Award Finalist, NIST Postdoc and Early-Career Association of Researchers, 2023
  • NIST NRC Postdoctoral Research Fellowship, 2020-2022
  • Invited speaker, NCI Frontiers in Light Microscopy Symposium, 2019
  • Platform Session Speaker, Biophysical Society Annual Meeting, 2019
  • Poster Competition Award, RiboClub 20th Anniversary Meeting, Quebec, Canada, 2019
  • Honorable Mention, Ford Foundation Dissertation Fellowship, 2017
  • NSF Research Traineeship in Network Biology, National Science Foundation, 2016
  • Best Poster Award, Drs. Wayne T. and Mary T. Hockmeyer Endowed Scholarship, 2016
  • Graduate Research Fellowship, NCI-UMD Partnership for Integrative Cancer Research, 2014-2016
  • President’s List, Portland State University, 2010
  • Gates Millennium Scholar, 2007-2011

Publications

Interlaboratory Assessment of Candidate Reference Materials for Lentiviral Vector Copy Number and Integration Site Measurements

Author(s)
Hua-Jun He, Zhiyong He, Steven Lund, Barbara Paugh, Jennifer McDaniel, Justin Zook, Sierra Miller, Samantha Maragh, Simona Patange, Mahir Mohiuddin, Alessandro Tona, John Elliott, Kenneth Cole, Sheng Lin-Gibson
Reference materials are essential for accurately measuring integrated lentiviral vector (LV) copy number (VCN) and integration sites for the safety and efficacy
Created December 9, 2020, Updated October 1, 2025
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