View this short video to learn more about the Mass Spectrometry Center at the University of Maryland School of Pharmacy and how it provides state-of-the-art expertise, methodology, and instrumentation to faculty across the School and surrounding research community.
About the Center:
The Mass Spectrometry Center (MSC) is an Organized Research Center with an emphasis on collaborative research.
The MSC Vision is to accelerate discovery by providing investigators, on campus and beyond, access to cutting-edge technologies in mass spectrometry.
The MSC Mission is to lead or integrate into research teams with the goal of conducting high quality analytical science, publishing novel research, and obtaining sustainable funding pertaining to biological, medical, and pharmaceutical science including drug discovery and drug development.
The Mass Spectrometry Center is located in Pharmacy Hall North (PHN) and provides state-of-the-art expertise, methodology, and instrumentation to the School of Pharmacy, surrounding UMB research community and beyond. The Mass Spectrometry Center also provides researchers the opportunity to perform and access sophisticated experiments by working closely in a true collaborative effort between faculty, students, and staff scientists.
Expertise and Experience:
The expertise and experience of the Center staff span a broad range of biomedical research, from basic biology and medicine to technology development and translational research, including:
- Chemical Biology
- Pharmaceutical Biology
- Cancer Biology
- Microbial Biology
- Infectious Disease
- Metabolic Disease
- Chronic Pain Research
- Quantitative Biosciences
- Drug Discovery and Drug Development
- Translational and Regulatory Sciences
- Nanotechnology
- Instrumentation
- Bioinformatics and Technology Development
The Center also supports collaborative efforts with researchers around the world on various topics.
The PAMDB is an expertly curated database containing extensive metabolomic data and metabolic pathway diagrams about Pseudomonas aeruginosa (reference strain PAO1). Each metabolite is linked to a variety of data describing the compound, its ontology, physical properties, reactions, pathways, references, external links and associated proteins or enzymes.
Learn MoreA Partner in Innovation
The School of Pharmacy Mass Spectrometry Center is a partner in the Waters Centers of Innovation Program, which recognizes analytical scientists facilitating breakthroughs in health and life science research, food safety, environmental protection, sports medicine, and many other areas.
