Mark Chance, PhD

Dr. Mark Chance received his bachelor's degree in Biology from Wesleyan University and his Ph.D. degree in Biophysics from the University of Pennsylvania. Dr. Chance furthered his training as a Postdoctoral Research Associate at AT&T Bell Laboratories.  He went on to become Assistant Professor in the Department of Chemistry at Georgetown University.  He then served as Assistant Professor at Albert Einstein College of Medicine in Bronx, New York and was soon promoted to Associate Professor of the Departments of Physiology & Biophysics and Biochemistry.  He was Professor at AECOM when he moved to the Case School of Medicine in 2005, where he is currently the Director of both the Case Center for Proteomics and Bioinformatics and Case Center for Synchrotron Biosciences and Professor of Physiology and Biophysics.  Dr. Chance is an internationally renowned scientist in the field of mass spectrometry. He is an expert in the quantitative mass spectrometry and 2-D Gel techniques that enable scientists to identify biomarkers and regulatory pathways in colon cancer, diabetes, radiation exposure, and HIV infection. (Email: mark.chance@case.edu)