Pediatric oncologist Alex Kentsis offers a reports on Mass Device on a recent “proteomics” meeting at Children’s Hospital:

…I presented latest results from a large collaborative project spanning several departments at Children’s Hospital on ways to use proteomics to improve the diagnosis and treatment of wide variety of human diseases. In particular, mass spec-based proteomics allowed my colleagues and me to identify new diagnostic markers of Kawasaki disease, a serious inflammatory and heart illness for which we have no definitive diagnostic test and which is mimicked by many childhood conditions.

In all, Proteomics 2011 suggested that “next generation proteomics” will enable unprecedented discovery of how proteins are regulated by functional modifications, how protein networks control biology, and how their study in patients could improve the diagnosis and treatment of a wide variety of human diseases.