Shaun McLoughlin

Shaun McLoughlin received his Ph.D. from the University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign from the lab of Professor Neil Kelleher studying bioassembly of natural products on polyketide scaffolds using top-down proteomics. In 2005, after receiving his degree, he joined Abbott Labs in North Chicago IL as an analytical chemist specializing in chemical biology and proteomics. Through his tenure at Abbott, and later AbbVie, he has worked across multiple integrated platform teams conducting target identification from phenotypic screens, characterizing biological therapeutics and cell surface antigens as well as studying proteomic and genomic signatures of cell death modalities. In recent years, he has been working in the field of targeted protein degradation applying methods for the discovery of new molecular glues and hijackable E3 ligases.