2023 ANACHEM Plenary Session
2022 ANACHEM Awardee
Joseph A. Loo, Ph.D.
Professor
Department of Chemistry & Biochemistry
Department of Biological Chemistry, David Geffen School of Medicine
University of California, Los Angeles
Biography
Dr. Joseph A. Loo is a Professor in the Department of Chemistry & Biochemistry and the Department of Biological Chemistry, David Geffen School of Medicine at the University of California, Los Angeles (UCLA), and he is the Faculty Director of the UCLA Mass Spectrometry facility of the Molecular Instrumentation Center. He is also a member of UCLA/DOE Laboratory for Genomics and Proteomics and the UCLA Molecular Biology Institute.
His research interests include the development of bioanalytical mass spectrometry methods for the structural characterization of proteins and their application for proteomics and disease biomarkers. He is also interested in the development and application of native mass spectrometry and top-down mass spectrometry for the study of protein complexes and their interactions with other binding partners and ligands. At UCLA, Dr. Loo teaches a course for undergraduate students on Chemical Instrumentation and a graduate level course on Proteomics and Mass Spectrometry.
He is an author of over 300 scientific publications. He has been on the Editorial Boards of Bioconjugate Chemistry, Analytical Chemistry, and Chemical & Engineering News, and Rapid Communications in Mass Spectrometry, and currently he serves on the Editorial Advisory Board for Clinical Proteomics and the International Journal of Mass Spectrometry. He is the Editor-in-Chief for the Journal of the American Society for Mass Spectrometry. In 2000-2002, he served on the Board of Directors for the American Society for Mass Spectrometry.
Before he joined UCLA, he was Group Leader of the Biological Mass Spectrometry and Proteomics Team at Parke-Davis Pharmaceutical (currently Pfizer Global Research), Ann Arbor, MI. He worked at Warner-Lambert/Parke-Davis/Pfizer for nearly 10 years before moving to UCLA.
He received his BS degree in Chemistry from Clarkson University (Potsdam, NY), and his Ph.D. degree in analytical chemistry from Cornell University in 1988 (Prof. Fred W. McLafferty). He carried out post-doctoral research at Pacific Northwest National Laboratory, Richland, WA (Dr. Richard D. Smith).
