Catherine Costello
The Power List 2019 – 21-100 (A-Z)
Catherine Costello
William Fairfield Warren Distinguished Professor & Director of the Center for Biomedical Mass Spectrometry, Boston University, USA.
Research: Establishing the structures of biopolymers to understand structure–activity relationships and their influence in biological processes related to health, growth and development and disease.
Nominator comment:“Costello is a life-long pioneer in MS and glycoanalysis, past president of ASMS, HUPO and IMSF, and is actively engaged in promoting the careers of young scientists. In glycobiological MS she defined the oligosaccharide fragmentation nomenclature.”