Professor honored for his top-down protein approach

At 5 feet tall, Neil Kelleher jokes that he had to build one of the world's larger Fourier transform mass spectrometers to compensate.

But Kelleher actually needed a big machine when he arrived at the University of Illinois in 1999 to look at proteins with the hope that one day we may be able to detect cancer and other diseases earlier, perhaps even before tumors form.

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