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 SCSA Diagnostics
Dr. Donald P. Evenson, Ph.D., HCLD is a Distinguished Professor of Biochemistry at South Dakota State University and President and Director of SCSAŽ Diagnostics, Inc. a private corporation that is solely dedicated to using the SCSAŽ test to determine the relationship between infertility and DNA fragmentation in sperm. Dr. Evenson invented and developed the SCSAŽ test and has over 20 years experience measuring tens of thousands of animal and human sperm samples. Therefore, Dr. Evenson is likely the most knowledgeable and experienced person in the world to conduct, analyze and interpret this complex assay.
After studying the structure of viral chromosomes for two years as a staff scientist at the Union Carbide Research Institute in Tarrytown, NY, Dr. Evenson accepted a joint faculty appointment at the Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center and the Cornell Graduate School for Medical Sciences in New York City where for eleven years he used electron microscopy to study the structure of cancer virus and human sperm chromosomes. During the last five years of his tenure in New York, Dr. Evenson was appointed to the Flow Cytometry Laboratory at Memorial Sloan Kettering, which was one of the few laboratories credited with the invention of the flow cytometer in the late 1960's. Dr. Evenson initially used this sophisticated, laser-driven and computer-interfaced instrument in studying the effects of chemotherapy agents on mammalian chromosomes.
Dr. Evenson and his colleagues at Memorial Sloan Kettering invented the Sperm Chromatin Structure Assay (SCSAŽ) test. Their first paper on the potential power of the SCSAŽ test for human and animal fertility studies was published in the prestigious journal Science (December 5, 1980) with green (fertile) and red (infertile) acridine orange-stained sperm pictured on the cover. Since the publication of this first study, the SCSAŽ test has been proven time and again to be one of the most powerful assays used in fertility and toxicology studies. Dr. Evenson was awarded a U.S. Patent for the SCSAŽ test for infertility assessment.
www.scsadiagnostics.com
SCSAŽDIAGNOSTICS, INC.
Brookings Research & Technology Center
807 32nd Avenue
Brookings, SD 57006
Local: (Brookings, SD): 605-692-5938
Toll Free: 866-219-1338
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