Guest Editors:
Tiannan Guo: Westlake University, China
Ed Nice: Monash University, Australia
Stephen Pennington: UCD Conway Institute, Ireland
Henry Rodriguez: National Institutes of Health, USA
Clinical Proteomics is calling for submissions to our Collection on Clinical translation of targeted proteomics.
Tiannan Guo: Westlake University, ChinaTiannan Guo is an associate professor at Westlake University. He also leads the iMarker lab at Westlake Laboratory. His research focuses on proteomic technological development and AI-empowered applications in disease diagnosis and therapeutics. He and colleagues developed pressure-cycling technology coupled with SWATH/DIA mass spectrometry to enable effective proteomic analysis of biopsy tissues. His team reported the first proteomic and metabolic profiles of COVID-19 sera, the first proteomic landscape for COVID-19 autopsies, and the first proteomic classifier for diagnosing thyroid nodules. More in www.guomics.com.
Ed Nice: Monash University, AustraliaEd Nice is a Professor at Monash University where he is Head of Clinical Biomarker Discovery and Validation and scientific advisor to the Monash Antibody Technologies Facility, for which he was director from 2009 to 2013. He is also a Visiting Professor at Sichuan University/West China Hospital. His long-term research interests have been in protein and peptide micropurification, biomarker discovery and validation, SPR analysis, high throughput monoclonal antibody production and validation, and clinical biomarker assay development, with a strong translational focus on colorectal cancer, especially the field of faecal proteomics for colorectal cancer detection and surveillance. He is actively involved in the Human Proteome Organization (HUPO).
Stephen Pennington: UCD Conway Institute, IrelandStephen Pennington graduated from Imperial College of Science and Technology (Imperial College London) with a joint honours degree in Chemistry and Biochemistry before completing a PhD in Biochemistry at the University of Cambridge. His research team in University College Dublin is currently focused on the translation of novel protein biomarkers to clinical diagnostic tests. He founded the UCD spin out company, Atturos in late 2016 and was awarded UCD's Innovator of the Year in 2018. Steve is currently Professor of Proteomics and Senior Fellow, UCD Conway Institute, President of the British Society of Proteome Research, and past President of HUPO. Most recently, he and a rheumatologist colleague are leading an IMI funded European consortium (HIPPOCRATES; https://hippocrates-imi.eu/) which seeks to address key unmet needs in Psoriatic Disease.
Henry Rodriguez: National Institutes of Health, USAHenry Rodriguez is the Founding Director of the Office of Cancer Clinical Proteomics Research at the National Cancer Institute, National Institutes of Health. Recently, he served as Assistant Director for Strategic Health and Cancer Science, in the Executive Office of the President at the White House. A cell and molecular biologist with a background in business, Dr. Rodriguez’s biomedical research has focused on mechanisms of cancer in basic and clinical science, and the development of measurement science, standards, and technology. Dr. Rodriguez has authored more than 150 original research papers, including co-editing a best-selling book on oxidative stress and aging.
Accurate and rapid performance of medical diagnostic tests is a critical requirement for molecular diagnosis and disease treatment. While immunoassays are used in the majority of in vitro diagnostics, limitations such as cross-reactivity, low sensitivity, and limited dynamic range, compel clinical laboratories to seek better solutions that are highly sensitive, reproducible and specific, while also providing high throughput.
Recent advancements in new analytical methods and techniques over the last decade, specifically mass spectrometry (MS)-based targeted proteomic analytical methods and techniques, now allow for the highly reproducible and precise measurement of nearly every human protein. Nevertheless, translating these methods and techniques into ‘clinical grade’ assays presents many challenges.
We invite submissions for this special issue that focuses on the clinical translation of targeted MS proteomics and associated technologies. The scope includes, but is not limited to, the areas listed below:
• MS-based targeted proteomics methodologies, such as selected/multiple reaction monitoring (S/MRM) and parallel reaction monitoring (PRM). The reported methods could be MS hardware- or software-based.
• MS-based targeted proteomics assay resources.
• Development, testing, and validation of targeted assays for measuring protein expression, post-translational modifications (PTMs) and protein functions to aid in the diagnosis and/or monitoring of human diseases.
• Standardization of targeted proteomics methodologies for clinical applications, such as MS data acquisition, data formats, quality control, internal and external standards, metrological analysis, and other clinical translation issues.
• Non-MS-based targeted proteomics with clinical potential.
Research articles, technical notes, reviews, and commentaries are all examples of article types.
There are currently no articles in this collection.
Before submitting your manuscript, please ensure you have read our submission guidelines. Articles for this Collection should be submitted via our submission system, Snapp. During the submission process you will be asked whether you are submitting to a Collection, please select Clinical translation of targeted proteomics from the dropdown menu.
Articles will undergo the journal’s standard peer-review process and are subject to all of the journal’s standard policies. Articles will be added to the Collection as they are published.
The Guest Editors have no competing interests with the submissions which they handle through the peer review process. The peer review of any submissions for which the Guest Editors have competing interests is handled by another Editorial Board Member who has no competing interests.