My clinical service and academic interests focus on implementing new tests for in vitro diagnosis and to improve quality of testing by promoting excellence in automation, toxicology and point of care areas of laboratory.
Melissa Budelier, PhD
TriCore Reference Laboratories
Dr. Budelier the Medical Director of Clinical Chemistry and Toxicology at TriCore Reference Laboratories and Clinical Assistant Professor of Pathology at the University of New Mexico. Her research interests are broadly focused on developing clinically useful, mass spectrometry-based assays to improve diagnosis and treatment of human disease. Her expertise are in Toxicology/TDM, assay development and validation, and protein quantification.
Dustin Bunch, PhD, DABCC
Nationwide Children's Hospital
Dustin R. Bunch, is an Asst. Director of Clinical Chemistry & Laboratory Informatics at Nationwide Children's Hospital. His research focuses small molecule analysis by mass spectrometry in a clinical setting and hospital and clinical informatics.
Pankaj Dwivedi, PhD
Genentech
1e Interests: Cancer Biology, Signal Transduction, Proteomics, Post Translational Modifications (Phosphorylation, Ubiquitination), Quantitative proteomics (SILAC, TMT, MRM/PRM/SWATH), Proteomics Data Analysis
Pankaj has expertise in cancer biology, quantitative proteomics-phosphoproteomics, protein biochemistry, and proteomics data analysis. He has published seminal scientific papers on the cytokine receptor biology and its role in leukemia. His sphere of experience and interest includes but not limited to cell cultures, mouse models, processing proteomics samples and operating nano-LC-MS/MS. He has in-depth knowledge and understanding of quantitative proteomics techniques, e.g. SILAC, TMT, iTRAQ and RABA and understanding of aberrant proteomics as well as phospho-signaling and global ubiquitin profiles of solid and liquid tumor models.
Kate Gallagher, BSc, MRes
Imperial College London
1e Interests: Metabolomics, Microbiome, Inflammatory Bowel Disease, Clinical Research
Currently a PhD candidate, at Imperial College London, specialising in the metabolomic and microbiomic stratification of Inflammatory Bowel Disease (IBD) patients (both Crohn's and Ulcerative Colitis). Some of my skills include biological/clinical sample preparation and analysis using LC-MS, GC-MS, and proton NMR, and the processing of metabolomic data following acquisition. I have a personal interest in scientific writing and communication.
Oleg Karaduta, MD
University of Arkansas for Medical Sciences
1e Interests: chronic disease; microbiome; metproteomics
Oleg Karaduta holds faculty position at University of Arkansas for Medical Sciences. His research focuses on development of mass spectrometry-based proteomics tools for the analysis of protein-protein interaction networks and for metaproteomics.
Olgica Trenchevska, PhD
Cowper Sciences
I have obtained a degree as an Engineer in Chemistry focusing on analytical biochemistry, followed by a masters and PhD in Biochemistry (SS Cyril and Methodius University, N Macedonia) with a major focus on clinical proteomics and MALDI mass spectrometry. I have furthered my experience in a clinical laboratory (Clinic of Neurology), academia (The Biodesign Institute, ASU) and Industry (HealthTell Inc ). I am fascinated by mass spectrometry and the unambiguity it possess. I am currently a Senior Scientist at Cowper Sciences Inc, where I am focusing on exploring/applying novel methods and techniques in proteomics research, with potential for operation and commercialization.
