Plenary talk title: Exploiting the Mass Spectrometry Toolkit for Biomedical Discoveries and Clinical Translation
Dr. Akhilesh Pandey is a physician scientist with specialty training in Clinical Pathology. He was at Johns Hopkins University for 16 years until he moved to Mayo Clinic in Rochester, Minnesota in 2018 where he is currently a Professor in the Department of Laboratory Medicine and Pathology. He oversees the Systems Biology and Translational Medicine Laboratory and is also leading efforts to develop mass spectrometry-based assays in the Advanced Diagnostics Laboratory. His laboratory employs a broad range of tools and technologies including gene editing, animal models, proteomics, metabolomics and lipidomics. In proteomics, he has pioneered methods for quantitative proteomics, analysis of post-translational modifications, protein-protein interactions and proteogenomics. He directs Mayo Clinic’s Proteogenomic Translational Research Center (PTRC) funded by NCI’s Clinical Proteomics Tumor Analysis Consortium (CPTAC) to study multiple myeloma His interests are in developing novel assays for clinical diagnostics and in using systems biology approaches to study a variety of human diseases ranging from inherited genetic disorders to cancer.
