Dr. Scott Tenenbaum is the Head of Nanobioscience and the Laboratory of RNA Nanotechnology at the College of Nanoscale Science and Engineering at the SUNY-Polytechnic Institute. He received his Ph.D. in Microbiology and Immunology from Tulane University Medical Center and did his post-doctoral training at Duke University Medical Center, where he helped pioneer RIP-Chip/Seq technology and the field of “Ribonomics,” which is the genomic-scale study of post-transcriptional gene regulation.
Dr. Tenenbaum holds 19 issued or pending patents which have served as the basis for 4 biotechnology start-up companies including his most recent, sxRNA Technologies, Inc. in the NY Capital Region. He has been awarded numerous honors, including The Judith Graham Pool Fellowship, The James A. Wilson, M.D. Fellow in Cancer Award; The Robert M. and Barbara R. Bell Basic Science of Cancer Award; The SUNY Golden Apple Teaching Award; The SUNY-Research Foundation Rising Star Award; and most recently, The SUNY Excellence in Research Award.
Dr. Tenenbaum has had numerous NIH and NSF grants, maintaining continuous federal funding since 2004. The focus of his research lab is RNA and RNA-bindng protiens and he is currently developing an RNA “nano-switch” platform technology called sxRNA to be used as a molecular tool, a diagnostic and as a therapeutic.