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Michael La Frano earned a Ph.D. in Nutrition Biology at the University of California, Davis. Subsequently, his postdoctoral fellowship role was as a pilot project scientist for West Coast Metabolomics Center NIH Pilot & Feasibility Project studies in which he performed targeted metabolomics analysis as part of the Newman Laboratory for Lipid Mediators. Afterwards, he joined the Food Science and Nutrition faculty at the California Polytechnic State University, San Luis Obispo where he was an Associate Professor. His independent research focused on investigating biomarkers of disease, as well as nutritional metabolomics. He also served as Director of the Cal Poly Metabolomics Service Center, which he founded. He later became Director of the Metabolomics and Proteomics Cores at the Roy J. Carver Biotechnology Center, University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign where he focused primarily on the expansion of untargeted and targeted LC-MS methods, as well as creation of data processing, QA/QC, and analysis techniques. Now, as Director of the Mass Spectrometry Core (MASS), he will be working with Salk Institute scientists seeking to utilize a variety of metabolomics and proteomics techniques for research discoveries.
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