John Yates III
Professor
Department of Cell biology
The Scripps Research Institute (LaJolla)

John Yates received his Ph.D. in Chemistry at the University of Virginia under Professor Donald Hunt. His graduate research involved the development and application of tandem mass spectrometry for sequence analysis of proteins. Following a Biotechnology Fellowship at the California Institute of Technology, he moved to the Department of Molecular Biotechnology at the University of Washington where he attained the tenured rank of Associate Professor. He is now a Professor in the Department of Cell Biology at The Scripps Research Institute. His research interests include development of integrated methods for tandem mass spectrometry analysis of protein mixtures, bioinformatics using mass spectrometry data, and proteomics. He is the lead inventor of the SEQUEST software for correlating tandem mass spectrometry data to sequences in the database and principle developed of the shotgun proteomics technique for the analysis of protein mixtures. He has received the American Society for Mass Spectrometry research award, the Pehr Edman Award in Protein Chemistry, the American Society for Mass Spectrometry Biemann Medal, the HUPO Distinguished Achievement Award in Proteomics, Herbert Sober Award from the ASBMB, and the Christian Anfinsen Award from The Protein Society. He has published over 350 scientific articles.

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