William S. Hancock is Professor of Chemistry and holds the Bradstreet Chair in Bioanalytical Chemistry within the Barnett Institute of Chemical and Biological Analysis at Northeastern University, Boston, MA. He is the founding Editor-in-Chief of the ACS publication, Journal of Proteomic Research and has published over 240 scientific publications , 7 books, and holds 15 patents. He has received the Martin Gold Medal in Separation Science (British Chromatographic Society), Stephen dal Nogare Memorial Award in Chromatography and the ACS Award in Chromatography. His current research is focused on applying new analytical technology to current problems in the biotechnology industry as well as cancer proteomics and the plasma proteome. Dr. Hancock serves as Vice President on the International HUPO council. In 2009 he became a WCU professor at Yonsei University, Seoul and Professor of Clinical Proteomics at Macquarie University, Sydney. In collaboration with Dr. Young-Ki Paik he developed the chromosome centric proteomic project and leads a team that is studying the protein parts list of chromosome 17 and the erbb2 gene environment in development of breast, stomach and colon cancer.