US HUPO 2025

Etienne Caron, Ph.D., Assistant Professor, Yale University, New Haven, CT, USA

Dr. Caron is a Canadian scientist with a background in Biotechnology and Systems Immunology. He received his Ph.D. from the University of Montreal in Canada under the guidance of Dr. Claude Perreault and completed his education at ETH-Zürich in Switzerland under the guidance of Dr. Ruedi Aebersold. Dr. Caron is known for his international leadership and expertise in immunopeptidomics for the global analysis of MHC-associated peptides using mass spectrometry technologies. His scientific program has the potential to revolutionize the research on vaccine design, cancer immunotherapy, infectious and autoimmune diseases, including treatment of neurodegenerative diseases and aging.

Brian R. Hoffmann, Ph.D., Director of Protein Sciences and Mass Spectrometry Services, The Jackson Laboratory, Bar Harbor, ME, USA

Brian Hoffmann, Ph.D., is the Director of Protein Sciences and Mass Spectrometry Services at The Jackson Laboratory. He obtained his doctorate degree from the University of Wisconsin-Madison in Molecular and Cellular Pharmacology, with a focus on protein interactions and modifications in the extracellular matrix. During this time he also received formal and informal mass spectrometry training on a variety of mass spectrometry instruments. This training was then furthered through a postdoctoral position at the Medical College of Wisconsin in stem cell physiology and proteomics. While at the Medical College of Wisconsin he received a NIH NIDDK K01 grant related to the influence of hyperglycemia on the cardiovascular system and transitioned to an Assistant Professor position in the Department of Biomedical Engineering. In late 2020, he was recruited to The Jackson Laboratory as a Scientist to build up the mass spectrometry capabilities and has since transitioned to his current position managing the Mass Spectrometry Service. In his laboratory the team utilizes multi-omics mass spectrometry-based approaches for molecular phenotyping of a variety of models.

Ileana Cristea, Ph.D., Hillman Professor of Molecular Biology, Princeton University, NJ, USA

Ileana Cristea is the Henry L. Hillman Professor of Molecular Biology at Princeton University. Her laboratory investigates host cell responses to human viral pathogens. She has been at the forefront of bridging developments in mass spectrometry-proteomics to important findings in virology. Her laboratory has contributed to the emergence of the field of nuclear DNA sensing in immune response, has defined organelle remodeling events during viral infections, has described the first characterization of a virus microenvironment, and has discovered antiviral factors for therapeutic intervention. 

Dr. Cristea is the Past-President of the American Human Proteome Organization (US HUPO), the Past-Chair of the Biology/Disease-driven Human Proteome Project (B/D-HPP) of HUPO, and the Chair of the Infectious Disease team of HUPO B/D-HPP. She is the Editor-in-Chief of Molecular & Cellular Proteomics and has previously taught the summer Proteomics Course at Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory for over ten years. She was recognized with the Bordoli Prize from the British Mass Spectrometry Society, NIDA Avant-Garde Award for HIV/AIDS Research, Human Frontiers Science Program Young Investigator Award, Early Career Award in Mass Spectrometry from ACS, ASMS Research Award, Molecular Cellular Proteomics Lectureship, Mallinckrodt Scholar Award, Discovery Award in Proteomic Sciences at HUPO, Princeton University Graduate Mentoring Award, the WALS Lectureship from the NIH Director, and the Paul Allen Distinguished Investigator Award.