Proteomics Division Launched by AACC

A new Proteomics Division has been launched by the American Association for Clinical Chemistry (AACC, Washington, DC, USA) to develop conference programming and informative sessions to help laboratory professionals understand the significance of new tools and fulfill their educational needs in this field.

Clinical proteomics, the focus of the new division, applies the analysis of protein expression to medical diagnostics and patient health. Mass spectrometry, simultaneous analysis of multiple proteins by two-dimensional electrophoresis, protein arrays, multi-dimensional chromatography, and other new methods have shown exciting promise for the discovery of new disease markers. The new division will seek to establish communication with medical professionals outside the laboratory community--including physicians, researchers, manufacturers, and regulatory bodies--to further promote the effective use of proteomics-based tools in medical care.

"The challenge is to try to translate marker discovery in the research laboratory into practical tests in the clinical laboratory,” said Glen L. Hortin, M.D., Ph.D., division chair. "What has changed is the addition of a powerful set of new tools that enable more detailed structural analysis of proteins and simultaneous analysis of multiple proteins rather than one protein at a time.”




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