Prof. John R. Yates III

John is the Ernest W. Hahn Professor in the Departments of Molecular Medicine and Neurobiology at The Scripps Research Institute. He received a BA in Zoology and an MS in Chemistry from the University of Maine at Orono, his PhD in Chemistry at the University of Virginia in the laboratory of Donald F. Hunt, and performed postdoctoral research in the laboratory of Leroy E. Hood at the California Institute of Technology. At the University of Washington, he obtained the rank of Associate Professor with tenure before moving to The Scripps Research Institute in LaJolla, CA.

He is the lead inventor of the SEQUEST software for correlating tandem mass spectrometry data to sequences in the database and the developer of the shotgun proteomics technique for the analysis of protein mixtures.

John has received numerous prestigious awards and was ranked by Citation Impact, Science Watch as one of the “Top 100 Chemists” for the decade, 2000-2010. He was #1 on the list of “Most Influential in Analytical Chemistry,” compiled by The Analytical Scientist in 2013, and is on the list of “Most Highly Influential Biomedical Researchers, 1996-2011” and the Clarivate List of “Highly Cited Scientists” in 2015 and 2019-2023.

He has published over 1000 scientific articles with more than 173,000 citations and has an h-index of 209 (Google Scholar). John served as an Associate Editor at Analytical Chemistry for 15 years and is currently the Editor in Chief at the Journal of Proteome Research.

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