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CPTAC Proteome Characterization Center Principal Investigators

The following are the five Clinical Proteomic Tumor Analysis Consortium (CPTAC) teams, representing a network of eight Proteome Characterization Centers.  Teams are listed by grant title with their respective Principal Investigators:

Cancer Proteomic Center at Washington University, University of North Carolina and Boise State University

  • Washington University, St. Louis, MO
    Principal Investigators: Matthew J. C. Ellis, M.B., Ph.D.; R. Reid Townsend, M.D., Ph.D.
  • University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill, NC
    Principal Investigator: Xian Chen, Ph.D.
  • Boise State University, Boise, ID
    Principal Investigator: Morgan C. Giddings, Ph.D.

Center for Application of Advanced Clinical Proteomic Technologies for Cancer

  • Pacific Northwest National Laboratory, Richland, WA
    Principal Investigators: Richard D. Smith, Ph.D.; Karin D. Rodland, Ph.D.

Proteome Characterization Center: A Genoproteomics Pipeline for Cancer Biomarkers

  • Johns Hopkins University, Baltimore, MD
    Principal Investigators: Daniel W. Chan, Ph.D.; Hui Zhang, Ph.D.; Zhen Zhang, Ph.D.

Proteo-genomic Discovery, Prioritization and Verification of Cancer Biomarkers

  • The Broad Institute, Cambridge, MA
    Principal Investigator: Steven A. Carr, Ph.D.
  • Fred Hutchinson Cancer Research Center, Seattle, WA
    Principal Investigator: Amanda G. Paulovich M.D., Ph.D.

Vanderbilt Proteome Characterization Center

  • Vanderbilt University, Nashville, TN
    Principal Investigator: Daniel C.Liebler, Ph.D.