Matthias Mann
Professor of Proteomics and Signal Transduction, Max Planck Institute of Biochemistry, Munich, Germany; and Director at the NNF Protein Research Center, Copenhagen, Denmark
Matthias Mann has been at the forefront of the mass spectrometry-based proteomics field for almost three decades. So far this year, the Mann Lab has: helped to uncover the role of proteomic shift in migraine, used deep visual proteomics to tailor cancer therapy to specific cell types, developed an open-source DIA search engine – just to name a few recent breakthroughs.
Biggest hero? By far the largest influence on my scientific life has been the late John Fenn (Nobel Prize in Chemistry 2002). He was the kindest and most modest person you could imagine and treated his lab members more like family than employees. He also always went against the grain and was very successful doing this.
