The first two attempts at a complete catalogue of human proteins are published in Nature by two independent teams of researchers. Albert Heck and co-author Simone Lemeer, who worked on the project in München before she joined the Biomolecular Mass Spectrometry and Proteomics Group at Utrecht University, were...
The Royal Netherlands Academy of Arts and Sciences has selected seventeen new members, including Albert Heck, professor Biomolecular Mass Spectrometry and Proteomics at Utrecht University. Academy members are prominent researchers active in all the disciplines. New members are nominated by peers from within and outside the Academy. The...
The Netherlands Organisation for Scientific Research (NWO) has awarded Simone Lemeer, assistant professor Biomolecular Mass Spectrometry and Proteomics Group at Utrecht University, a Vidi grant for her research proposal 'Elucidation of kinase inhibitor resistance in lung cancer'. With the Vidi grant NWO gives talented researchers the opportunity to...
In a recent article in the Journal of the American Chemical Society researchers from the Biomolecular Mass Spectrometry and Proteomics Group of Albert Heck at Utrecht University report on improvements made on a mass analyzer (termed Orbitrap), enabling them to analyze virus particles with unprecedented...
The pharmacological activities of a drug can only be understood if its interactions with cellular components and its effects are comprehensively characterized. PhD student Piero Giansanti of the Biomolecular Mass Spectrometry and Proteomics Group at Utrecht University, in collaboration with research teams at the CeMM...
The Royal Netherlands Academy of Arts and Sciences (KNAW) has awarded the 2014 Heineken Young Scientists Award for Biochemistry and Biophysic to Celia Berkers. Dr. Celia Berkers (33) is receiving the award for her research into the workings of the proteasome, a structure that breaks down proteins...
Albert J.R. Heck, Professor Biomolecular Mass Spectrometry and Proteomics at the Science Faculty of Utrecht University, has been elected EMBO member. In total 106 outstanding researchers in the life sciences were newly elected in this special year for EMBO on the occasion of its 50th anniversary....
Dr Shabaz Mohammed (Oxford University and Biomolecular Mass Spectrometry and Proteomics Group of Utrecht University) has been awarded the Joseph Black Award 2014 by the Royal Society of Chemistry. The Joseph Black Award is for a young scientist in any field covering the practice and teaching of analytical science...