Young Ah Goo, PhD

Director, Mass Spectrometry Technology Access Center (MTAC); Professor, Department of Biochemistry and Molecular Biophysics, Department of Genetics

Email: ygoo@nospam.wustl.edu

Young Ah Goo’s research focuses on the use of mass spectrometry-based -omics applications to study biological questions centered on the discovery of diagnostic/prognostic biomarkers & therapeutic targets for human diseases. Her career includes directing Mass Spectrometry Centers at Northwestern University, University of Maryland and University of Washington. Prior to joining WU, she was the director of the Proteomics Core facility at Northwestern University where she directed a fast paced, highly collaborative, and high-throughput center supporting proteomics for collaborators worldwide resulting in 10+ annual high-impact journal publications including Nature and >$10M grant awards annually.

She conducted her post-doctoral fellowship at the Institute for Systems Biology in Seattle, where she worked in the proteomics group affiliated with Drs. David Goodlett and Ruedi Aebersold. She earned her PhD in genome sciences/pathobiology with Dr. Leroy Hood at UW.