Mike Deery, who is the facility manager at the Cambridge Centre for Proteomics (CCP), has been awarded a grant from the BBSRC ALERT 24 mid-range equipment for biosciences research. The grant application was titled ‘Increasing mass spectrometry functionality and capacity for the Cambridge biological sciences community’. The award will be supplemented by financial support from the School of Biological Sciences and CCP and will be used to purchase a state-of-the-art mass spectrometer and liquid chromatography system. This will replace an ageing instrument and will therefore greatly increase the sensitivity and throughput of LC-MS/MS experiments, which will greatly benefit users of the facility.
The Cambridge co-investigators of the grant are Kathryn Lilley, Ross Waller, Alecia-Jane Twigger (all Biochemistry), Kostya Kanyuka (National Institute of Agricultural Botany), Sebastian Eves-van den Akker (Plant Sciences), Matthew Harper (Pharmacology) and Sebastian Schonack (Sainsbury Laboratory).