Kelleher wins Presidential Early Career Award

released September 01, 2005

This summer Neil Kelleher received the Presidential Early Career Award for Scientists and Engineers. Kelleher is an associate chemistry professor at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign and a member of the university's new Institute for Genomic Biology. He was nominated by the National Institutes of Health, one of 11 federal agencies that take part in the program. Fifty-eight young researchers were honored this year.

Kelleher's research team works on a "top-down" approach to identifying and characterizing proteins, which they hope will become a more standard and widespread method for the collection and interpretation of proteomic data. To analyze the large amount of mass-spectrometric data produced by this approach, they used supercomputing resources supported by the National Science Foundation's Partnerships for Advanced Computational Infrastructure program. NCSA's Ian Brooks helped them port the analysis code and get it up and running. With new, larger mass spectrometers coming to the U of I campus, the demands for processing yet-larger amounts of raw data are set to increase markedly as top-down mass spectrometry matures into a mainstream approach.

Kelleher's Presidential Early Career Award for Scientists and Engineers was covered in the (Champaign-Urbana) News-Gazette in August, http://www.newsgazette.com/localnews/story.cfm?Number=18760. Kelleher's work appeared in NCSA's Access magazine in 2003, http://access.ncsa.uiuc.edu/Stories/topdown/.

 

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