Have you ever googled mass spectrometry? The search returns 23,600,000 hits, underscoring its extensive use world wide in a broad range of applications and disciplines. The use of mass spectrometry at the University of Arizona is extensive with a large range of use by faculty, postdoctoral fellows, scientific staff and students taking advantage of its impressive power. Due to this extensive use and the collective expertise that exists at the University of Arizona , the Mass Spectrometry Consortium was formed in 2006. The Mass Spectrometry Consortium is co-directed by Drs. Serrine S. Lau, Professor of Pharmacology and Toxicology, and Vicki H. Wysocki, Professor of Chemistry and Biochemistry and Molecular Biophysics. The goal of this consortium is to further foster interactions among researchers and to offer mass spectrometry-based technology, expertise and services to investigators at the scientific communities within the University of Arizona, State of Arizona and the nation.

Various mass spectrometry based units are part of this consortium infrastructure

• Molecular Mass Spectrometry housed in Old Chemistry
• Inorganic Mass Spectrometry housed in Geo Sciences
• Arizona Proteomics Consortium housed collectively in the BIO5 Institute, College of Pharmacy , and Old Chemistry
• The Water Contamination Center to be housed in Gould Simpson is also planned to join the Mass Spectrometry Consortium