Benjamin Garcia, Ph.D.

Benjamin A. Garcia is the Raymond H. Wittcoff Distinguished Professor and Head of the Department of Biochemistry and Molecular Biophysics at Washington University School of Medicine in St. Louis. The Garcia lab has been developing and applying novel proteomic approaches and bioinformatics for interrogating protein modifications, especially those involved in epigenetic mechanisms such as histones during human disease, publishing over 400 publications.  He is presently an Associate Editor of the Analytical Chemistry, and Mass Spectrometry Reviews journals and serves on several editorial boards. Ben has been recognized with many honors and awards including the American Society for Mass Spectrometry (ASMS) Research Award, a National Science Foundation CAREER award, and was named a Fellow of the Royal Society of Chemistry.