Prof. dr. Albert J. R. Heck (1964) is Head of the Biomolecular Mass Spectrometry & Proteomics group since September 1998. He holds the chair of Biomolecular Mass Spectrometry & Proteomics, a position jointly funded by the Departments of Chemistry and Pharmaceutical Sciences. His major interest is in protein mass spectrometry. The general theme of the research in his group is to develop and implement innovative mass spectrometric methods for the more efficient and detailed characterization of protein and other biomolecules in relation to their biological function. The emphasis is on the structural and functional characterization of proteins and their post-translational modifications as well as on the investigation of protein interaction networks, protein complexes important in e.g. protein folding, protein ligand binding, and the formation of tertiary and quaternary structures.
Albert Heck is scientific director of the Netherlands Proteomics Centre (since 2003). He is member of the council of the Human Proteome Organization (HUPO) and was chairman of the HUPO Conference in Amsterdam in 2008. In 2001 he was recipient of the Golden Medal of the Dutch Royal Chemical Society. In 2004 he received an honoree Utrecht University “ABC”-professorship. In 2006 he received the Descartes-Huygens award from the French Academy of Sciences and in 2010 the "Massenspektrometrie in den Biowissenschaften Preis" from the German Society for Mass Spectrometry. In 2010 he was for 6 months awarded a visiting professorship at the ETH in Zurich. He has currently published more than 350 papers in internationally reviewed journals
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