Mass Spectrometry Center
MISSION:
The Mass Spectrometry Center, located in Pharmacy Hall North (PHN), provides state-of-the-art expertise, methodology, and instrumentation to the School of Pharmacy and surrounding research community. The facility also provides researchers the opportunity to perform and access sophisticated experiments by working closely in a true collaborative effort between faculty, students, and staff.
The expertise and experience of the Center staff span a broad range of biomedical research, from basic biology and medicine to technology development and translational research, including:
- Chemical Biology
- Pharmaceutical Biology
- Cancer Biology
- Microbial Biology
- Infectious Disease
- Metabolic Disease
- Chronic Pain Research
- Quantitative Biosciences
- Drug Discovery and Drug Development
- Translational and Regulatory Sciences
- Nanotechnology
- Instrumentation
- Bioinformatics and Technology Development
The Center also supports collaborative efforts with researchers around the world on various topics.
SERVICES:
The Mass Spectrometry Center offers expertise and applications spanning a wide range of fields.
- Metabolomics
- Lipidomics
- Proteomics
- Quantitative Analysis of Metal Ions in Biological Systems and Materials; Metallomics
- LC-MS/MS assay development
- Drug analysis and PK/PD
- GLP regulated bioanalysis for clinical studies
- Chemical compound identification and structure elucidation
- Biomarker identification and characterization
- Mass Spectrometry Imaging (MSI)
- Hydrogen Deuterium Exchange Mass Spectrometry (HDX)
- Fast Photochemical Oxidation of Proteins (FPOP)
- Bioinformatics and Cheminformatics
We continue to develop new opportunities to assist internal investigators, as well as external academic and industrial partners. Service and rate inquires should be sent to massspec@rx.umaryland.edu.
Note About Citations: Please acknowledge the Mass Spectrometry Center in publications or grant proposals as follows, "This work is supported in part by the University of Maryland Baltimore, School of Pharmacy Mass Spectrometry Center (SOP1841-IQB2014)."
INSTRUMENTS:
The Mass Spectrometry Center at the University of Maryland School of Pharmacy maintains 17 state-of-the-art mass spectrometers.
To learn more about the instruments available in the Mass Spectrometry Center, including the features each mass spectrometer is equipped with and the tasks that each is able to perform, explore the links below.
- AB Sciex 6500+ QTRAP Hybrid Tandem Quadrupole - Linear Ion Trap Mass Spectrometer
- Advion expression-L Compact Mass Spectrometer
- Agilent 7700 Inductively Coupled Plasma Mass Spectrometer
- Agilent 6560 IMS-QTOF mass spectrometer with 1290 UPLC
- Bruker AmaZon X Ion Trap Mass Spectrometer
- Bruker SolariX ESI/MALDI-12T-ICR Mass Spectrometer
- Bruker UltrafleXtreme MALDI TOF/TOF Mass Spectrometer
- Thermo Q-Exactive HF Quadrupole Mass Spectrometer
- Thermo TSQ Altis Tandem Quadrupole Mass Spectrometer
- Thermo TSQ Altis Tandem Quadrupole Mass Spectrometer
- Thermo LTQ Orbitrap Fusion Lumos Athena Tribrid Mass Spectrometer
- Thermo LTQ Orbitrap Fusion Lumos Apollo Tribrid Mass Spectrometer
- Waters ACQUITY TQ-XS Tandem Quadrupole Mass SPectrometer with ACQUITY H-Class UPLC
- Waters ACQUITY TQ-XS Tandem Quadrupole Mass Spectrometer with AQUITY H-Class UPLC
- Waters SYNAPT G2si HDMS Q-TOF Mass Spectrometer
- Waters SYNAPT G2S HDMS Q-TOF Mass Spectrometer
- Waters TQ-S Triple Quadrupole Mass Spectrometer - GLP Compliant
