Barnett Institute for Chemical & Biological Analysis

Join us for the 2025 Barry L. Karger Medal for Analytical Chemistry Celebration

The Barnett Institute is a center of excellence in the development and application of technologies for biopharmaceutical characterization and proteomics and systems biology. Through its faculty, research scientists, and students, the Barnett Institute makes a powerful impact on health. Even more importantly, the Institute is improving possibilities every day for how we can address the challenging diseases and complex healthcare issues of the future.

The core mission of the Institute is to develop new instrumentation and analytical methods to address emerging needs in biomedical research and biopharmaceutical development. This effort is simultaneously with ongoing basic and clinical research programs and industrial applications and collaborations.

Welcome Olga Vitek, PhD the new director of the Barnett Institute of Chemical and Biological Analysis! Vitek is an accomplished, award-winning educator and scientist whose research explores synergies between statistical science and machine learning, as applied to quantitative large-scale mass spectrometry-based investigations, to understand the functioning of living organisms.  

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The Barnett Institute is comprised of 15 Faculty Fellows from the College of Science, Khoury College of Computer Sciences, Bouvé College of Health Sciences and the College of the Engineering who work together with research scientists and students in a highly collaborative environment.

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The 50th Anniversary of the Barnett Institute and Karger Medal Celebration was special event where faculty, alumni, and friends heard about the revolutionary impact research from the Institute and industry leaders, including this year’s Karger Medal recipient.

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