Joseph Loo

Joseph A. Loo, Ph.D. is Professor of Chemistry and Biochemistry, and Biological Chemistry (David Geffen School of Medicine at UCLA) at the University of California, Los Angeles. He is also a member of UCLA/Dept. of Energy Institute for Genomics and Proteomics and the UCLA Molecular Biology Institute. He received his Ph.D. in chemistry working with Professor Fred McLafferty at Cornell University, and he was a postdoctoral fellow and Senior Research Scientist at Pacific Northwest National Laboratory with Dr. Richard Smith. Prior to UCLA, Dr. Loo was an Associate Research Fellow and Mass Spectrometry Group Leader at Parke-Davis Pharmaceutical Research/Pfizer. His group uses and develops novel methods based on mass spectrometry (MS), proteomics, and protein chemistry strategies to characterize proteins and protein complexes (and their post-translational modifications). He has published over 360 papers and book chapters. Dr. Loo was the Editor-in-Chief of the Journal of the American Society for Mass Spectrometry (2016-2022). Currently he is the President of the American Society for Mass Spectrometry (ASMS).