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Publications:1. Schütz, Ekkehard, Mohammad R. Akbari, Julia Beck, Howard Urnovitz, William W. Zhang, Kirsten Bornemann-Kolatzki, William M. Mitchell, Robert K. Nam, and Steven A. Narod. "Chromosomal Instability in Cell-Free DNA Is a Serum Biomarker for Prostate Cancer." Clinical chemistry (2014): clinchem-2014.2. Beck, Julia, Howard B. Urnovitz, Joachim Riggert, Mario Clerici, and Ekkehard Schütz. "Profile of the circulating DNA in apparently healthy individuals." Clinical chemistry 55, no. 4 (2009): 730-738.3. Beck, Julia, Howard B. Urnovitz, William M. Mitchell, and Ekkehard Schütz. "Next generation sequencing of serum circulating nucleic acids from patients with invasive ductal breast cancer reveals differences to healthy and nonmalignant controls." Molecular Cancer Research 8, no. 3 (2010): 335-342.4. Beck, Julia, Howard B. Urnovitz, Marina Saresella, Domenico Caputo, Mario Clerici, William M. Mitchell, and Ekkehard Schütz. "Serum DNA motifs predict disease and clinical status in multiple sclerosis." The Journal of Molecular Diagnostics 12, no. 3 (2010): 312-319.5. Gordon, Paul MK, Ekkehard Schütz, Julia Beck, Howard B. Urnovitz, Catherine Graham, Renee Clark, Sandor Dudas et al. "Disease-specific motifs can be identified in circulating nucleic acids from live elk and cattle infected with transmissible spongiform encephalopathies." Nucleic acids research 37, no. 2 (2009): 550-556.6. Urnovitz, Howard B., James J. Tuite, Jean M. Higashida, and William H. Murphy. "RNAs in the sera of Persian Gulf War veterans have segments homologous to chromosome 22q11. 2." Clinical and diagnostic laboratory immunology 6, no. 3 (1999): 330-335.

Director; Responsible Head for R/D for FDA licensed HIV Urine EIA and FDA licensed HIV Urine Western Blot Confirmation Test. Secured Venture Capital Financing, IPO, IP licensingPublications: 1. Urnovitz, Howard B., and William H. Murphy. "Human endogenous retroviruses: nature, occurrence, and clinical implications in human disease." Clinical Microbiology Reviews 9.1 (1996): 72-99.2. Urnovitz, Howard B., Jerrilyn C. Sturge, and Toby D. Gottfried. "Increased sensitivity of HIV-1 antibody detection." Nature medicine 3.11 (1997): 1258-1258.3. Urnovitz, H. B., T. D. Gottfried, D. J. Robison, L. I. Lutwick, D. V. Lancers, L. Montagnier, M. Clerici, and G. M. Shearer. "HIV-1 antibody serum negativity with urine positivity." The Lancet 342, no. 8885 (1993): 1458-1459.4. Urnovitz, Howard B., Jerrilyn C. Sturge, Toby D. Gottfried, and William H. Murphy. "Urine antibody tests: new insights into the dynamics of HIV-1 infection." Clinical chemistry 45, no. 9 (1999): 1602-1613.5. Schnettler, R., P. Gessner, U. Zimmermann, G. A. Neil, and H. B. Urnovitz. "Increased efficiency of mammalian somatic cell hybrid production under microgravity conditions during ballistic rocket flight." (1989).6. Mazzoli, Sandra, Lucia Lopalco, Alessandra Salvi, Daria Trabattoni, Sergio Lo Caputo, Francesca Semplici, Mara Biasin et al. "Human immunodeficiency virus (HIV)-specific IgA and HIV neutralizing activity in the serum of exposed seronegative partners of HIV-seropositive persons." Journal of Infectious Diseases 180, no. 3 (1999): 871-875.7. Stevens, Roy W., Aldona L. Baltch, Raymond P. Smith, Bruce J. McCreedy, Phyllis B. Michelsen, Lawrence H. Bopp, and Howard B. Urnovitz. "Antibody to human endogenous retrovirus peptide in urine of human immunodeficiency virus type 1-positive patients." Clinical and diagnostic laboratory immunology 6, no. 6 (1999): 783-786.

Created the Pathology Department Hybridoma Lab. Discovery: IgA:IgM heteropolymers from hybrid hybridomas. Publication:Urnovitz, H. B., Y. Chang, M. Scott, J. Fleischman, and R. G. Lynch. IgA:IgM and IgA:IgA Hybrid Hybridomas Secrete Heteropolymeric Immunoglobulins That Are Polyvalent and Bi-Specific. J. Immunol. 140: 558-563, 1988.

Isolated idiotypic antibodies with anti-idiotype affinity chromatography.Lynch, R. G., Milburn, G. L., Urnovitz, H. B., Binion, S. B., Williams, K. R., & Mueller, A. (1983). The analysis of immunoregulatory mechanisms with myeloma, lymphoma and hybridoma cells. Prog Immunol, 719, 726.