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Our Goal

The goal of the Moritz Lab is to bring together scientific expertise from diverse areas such as biology, chemistry, proteomics, physics, bioinformatics, and statistics, to enhance and develop innovative proteomic technologies and apply them to biological questions relevant to human health and wellbeing.

Our Focus

The use of blood and tissue samples to look for biomarkers that indicate the presence or stage of a disease presents many challenges. For example, proteins in the blood have an extraordinary range of abundances, with common proteins like albumin billions of times more abundant than trace proteins like cytokines.

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Human proteome blueprint

HUPO Releases 10-Year High-Stringency Blueprint of Human Proteome

 Posted on October 19, 2020

Like the draft “shotgun” Human Genome Project of the Human Genome Organization (HUGO), the HPP has now reached a significant decadal milestone of more than 90 percent completion of the Human Proteome that is referred to as the human proteome “parts list.”

Dr. Jeff Ranish and Dr. Mark Gillespie

Mysteries of Cell Fate Unlocked with New Measurement and Modeling Techniques 

 Posted on April 23, 2020

In the cellular process of differentiation, information about the concentrations of an important class of proteins residing in a cell’s nucleus has been lacking, a missing link needed for scientists to fully understand how the process works. ISB researchers have quantified this important class of proteins that play a key role in the formation of red blood cells.

Malaria Researchers’ Findings May Have Implications for Preventing Spread of Deadly Disease

 Posted on October 31, 2019

ISB researchers and their collaborators are using systems biology approaches to learn how the malaria parasite is able to transfer to humans via the bite of an infected mosquito. The information they have uncovered may help identify new ways to prevent people from contracting the deadly disease.

‘ENDING LYME:’ JUST-RELEASED VIDEO HIGHLIGHTS ISB’S NOVEL LYME DISEASE RESEARCH

 Posted on July 16, 2019

Since national surveillance of Lyme Disease started in 1982, the number of cases reported annually has increased nearly 25-fold. Lyme Disease specialist Dr. Susan Marra recently produced a video, “Ending Lyme,” about the latest in Lyme research that features ISB Drs. Jim Heath, Lee Hood, Rob Moritz, Naeha Subramanian and Nathan Price.

Andrea Varela-Stokes

ISB’s Moritz Lab Lands NIH Grant to Study Lyme Disease

 Posted on November 6, 2018

ISB’s Moritz Lab has received research funding totaling nearly $525,000 from the National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases of the National Institutes of Health to develop “novel peptide based biomarkers for Lyme disease diagnostics.”

ISB’s proteomics research in the spotlight

 Posted on July 23, 2018

Microsoft Research recently deployed a video crew to come to ISB to speak with our researchers about proteomics and sharing peptide data. A story featuring the video was published on the Microsoft Research blog.

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