Benjamin Garcia
Washington University in St Louis
Biography
Benjamin Garcia completed his undergraduate studies at UC Davies with Prof. Carlito Lebrilla, before embarking on a PhD with Professor Donald Hunt at 乐天堂app下载 University of Virginia. After a postdoctoral position with Professor Neil Kelleher at 乐天堂app下载 University of Illinois, Ben took up an Assistant Professor position at Princeton University (2008). He worked as a Professor at 乐天堂app下载 Perelman School of Medicine from 2012 and moved to his current faculty position in 2021.
Ben has received numerous awards including a National Science Foundation Early Faculty CAREER award, 乐天堂app下载 Presidential Early Career Award for Scientists and Engineers (PECASE, awarded by President Obama) and 乐天堂app下载 2018 American Society for Mass Spectrometry Biemann Medal.
乐天堂app下载 Garcia Lab focuses on developing new mass spectrometry based proteomic methodologies for 乐天堂app下载 quantitative characterization of changes in protein and proteome expression and post-translational modification state in response to external stimulus, or during significant biological events.
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RSC affiliations
Editorial board, Molecular Omics