William
Hancock
Faculty Fellow, Bradstreet Chair in Bioanalytical; Chemistry Co-Chair, Trans-NIH Alliance of Glycobiologists for Detection of Cancer and Cancer Risk; Editor-in-Chief, Journal of Proteome Research (ACS)
Expertise
William Hancock in the Press
Top-Down Proteomics Becomes Reality
In the mid-1990s, as the Human Genome Project was in full swing, scientists started thinking about the protein complement of the genome, and proteomics—the identification and characterization of all of an organism’s proteins—was born. Early proteomics methods used enzymes to digest proteins into pieces that could be easily analyzed by mass spectrometry. Those methods are now […]

