At this week’s US HUPO 2026 conference in St. Louis, Missouri, three members of our extended community officially received their awards. Congratulations to Mike MacCoss, Nate Basisty, and Bill Noble!

Mike MacCoss, Nate Basisty, and Bill Noble at US HUPO 2026

Mike MacCoss received the Donald F. Hunt Distinguished Contribution in Proteomics Award, recognizing his outstanding contributions to the field of proteomics, including his scientific achievements and dedication to mentorship and improving equity and inclusion within the community.

Nate Basisty, a former MacCoss lab trainee who completed his Ph.D. at UW co-mentored by Peter Rabinovitch and Mike MacCoss, received the Robert J. Cotter New Investigator Award. Nate is now an NIH Distinguished Scholar and Tenure Track Investigator at the National Institute on Aging, where his Translational Geroproteomics Unit works at the intersection of proteomics and translational aging biology.

Bill Noble, one of our closest colleagues in the Department of Genome Sciences, received the Gilbert S. Omenn Computational Proteomics Award, recognizing his tremendous contributions to machine learning and statistical methods for analyzing shotgun proteomics data.

We are incredibly proud of all three awardees. What a wonderful representation of our community!