In this new monthly feature, we will be highlighting extraordinary HUPO volunteers who lead and support many of HUPO's various Committees, Initiatives and Working Groups. If you would like to volunteer with HUPO, please connect with the HUPO Office.
HUPO Marketing and Outreach Committee (MOC)
The MOC has been at work developing new ways to promote the HUPO mission, the visibility of proteomics within the scientific community and its popularization among the public, as well as gathering funding support. The MOC has been very successful in networking with other HUPO Committees and Initiatives and using a range of tools and activities. The MOC members are from different fields and backgrounds and at various career stages representing the diversity of HUPO.
Charlotte Hutchings is a third-year PhD student at the Cambridge Centre for Proteomics, University of Cambridge. She applies expression and subcellular spatial proteomics methods to study the effect of viral production, specifically that of adeno-associated viruses, on cells. Charlotte is also very interested in bioinformatics and big data which has led her to write and teach workflow publications and workshops. Having found a love for proteomics, Charlotte has become an active member of the community and acts as the student representative for the British Society for Proteome Research (BSPR), Vice Chair of Online Activities for the HUPO Early Career Researcher (ECR) Committee and has more recently become involved in the HUPO Marketing and Outreach (MOC) Committee.
Theodora Katsila is a Senior Researcher-Head of the Biomarker Discovery & Translational Research laboratory at the National Hellenic Research Foundation, Greece. Craving for brain teasers (and being loyal to her motto: from information to actionable insights), she is strongly interested in translational biomarkers and proteoform-based drug repurposing. Mining the chemical biology space, Theodora aims to catalyze the transition from serendipity-driven to data-driven translational precision medicine. This paradigm shift comes with a need for biomarker-guided trial design and patient-centric companion diagnostics. For this, Theodora applies mass spectrometry-based multi-omics and data science.
Conor McCafferty is a Program Manager at the Murdoch Children’s Research Institute in Melbourne, Australia, where he coordinates and oversees the body of cancer research performed at the institute and the adjoining Royal Children’s Hospital. He has worked with proteomic technologies to investigate biomarkers of disease and completed his PhD investigating the relationship between thrombosis and COVID-19 in children from the University of Melbourne in 2022, which included proteomic analysis of patients with different COVID-19 outcomes. Conor joined the HUPO Marketing and Outreach Committee in 2019 and additionally sits as a board director of the Australian Society for Medical Research. He has a passion for solving clinical challenges (particularly in pediatrics) and works to develop coordinated research and multi-omic strategies to improve clinical outcomes.
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