This core previously functioned under the Virology, Proteomics and Microbial Pathogenesis Core but has emerged into its own core. Dr. Chance is Director of Center for Proteomics and Bioinformatics, and acts as Proteomics and Systems Biology Core Director for the CFAR. He has a long-standing track record in quantitative mass spectrometry; his laboratory invented mass spectrometry based protein foot printing, a well-known and popular quantitative proteomics technology for examining protein structure.