Mark W. Duncan, Ph.D.
Mark Duncan received both his B.Sc. (Honors) and Ph.D. degrees from the University of New South Wales (Sydney, Australia). His postdoctoral training was at the Garvan Institute of Medical Research (Sydney) and as a Fogerty Fellow at the National Institutes of Health (under the supervision of Drs. Sandy Markey and Irv Kopin). After 3 years in Bethesda he returned to Australia where he served as Associate Professor of Medicine (UNSW) and Director of the Biomedical Mass Spectrometry Facility (UNSW). In 1999, Dr. Duncan relocated to Colorado where he now holds appointments as Professor in the Departments of Pediatrics, Medicine, and Cellular and Developmental Biology. Dr. Duncan has published over 100 research articles and reviews on the applications of mass spectrometry to biomedical science and he co-authored The Principles of Quantitative Mass Spectrometry (with Drs. Jane Gale and Al Yergey). He is regularly invited to speak at universities and biomedical conferences both nationally and internationally, he has participated in over 25 NIH study sections, and he serves on the Editorial Boards of Protein Chemistry, Practical Proteomics and Experimental Biology & Medicine. His research is focused on quantitative methods of analysis, biomarker discovery and validation, and the clinical applications of proteomics.

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Jenna Boyd
Jenna Boyd is a research assistant in the Department of Pediatrics at the University of Colorado at Denver and Health Sciences Center. She received her B.A. in Biochemistry from DePauw University and is currently involved in a variety of projects in the Duncan Lab, most of which focus on biomarker discovery and validation.

Stephen W. Hunsucker, Ph.D.
Steve Hunsucker is an instructor in the Section of Pulmonary Medicine, Department of Pediatrics. He received his B.S. in Chemistry from Fort Lewis College and his Ph.D. in Chemistry from Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University in 2001. He is currently involved in a variety of projects in the Duncan Lab, most of which focus on biomarker discovery and validation. Over recent years much of his focus has been on the discovery of biomarkers that indicate pulmonary status in patients with cystic fibrosis. Dr. Hunsucker was recently awarded a grant from the Cystic Fibrosis Foundation to validate biomarkers of cystic fibrosis. He oversees the mass spectrometry activities of the Duncan Lab.

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Keri Murray
Keri Murray received her B.S. in Biochemistry from the University of California, Santa Barbara. She is a research assistant in the Department of Pediatrics at the UCDHSC and she is currently working on a variety of projects for the Duncan Lab.

James Simpson, A.M., I.MBA
James Simpson is the Business and Finance Coordinator for the Duncan lab. He has a B.A. in Biology/Chemistry from Whitman College, an A.M. in Humanities from the University of Chicago, and an International MBA from the University of Denver. James has several years of experience in both private-sector and nonprofit business management.

David Stahl, M.S.
David Stahl is a senior research assistant in the Duncan Lab, Department of Pediatrics at the University of Colorado Health Sciences Center.  He received a BS in Biology and MS in Biochemistry from the University of Wisconsin at Oshkosh.  He is currently involved with biomarker validation under the direction of Stephen Hunsucker, Ph.D..

Heather Thompson, Ph.D.
Heather Thompson is the Projects Manager for the Duncan lab. She received her B.S. in Biology from Smith College, M.S. in Exercise Biochemistry and Ph.D. in Molecular and Cellular Biology, both from the University of Massachusetts. After a year of working collaboratively as a post-doctoral fellow with the Duncan lab and clinicians in the Department of Cardiology, she joined the group in a permanent position to facilitate our collaborations with our clinical colleagues. Dr. Thompson's prior work focused on the proteomics of right ventricular overload, and she currently manages projects in areas such as liver disease, eye disease, breast cancer, Alzheimer's disease, rheumatoid arthritis and pulmonary hypertension.

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Lindsay Weitzel, M.S.
Lindsay Weitzel received her B.S. in Nutrition from Colorado State University and her M.S. from Penn State University studying polypharmacy and comorbidities in older adults with Type II Diabetes. Currently, she is a Ph.D. student in Epidemiology at UCDHSC in the area of female cancers. Her previous work at the university includes a study of metabolic profiles of mothers with a history of preeclampsia and their relation to breast cancer risk. Lindsay is employing proteomic methods in her thesis work that aims to identify protein biomarkers of breast and cervical cancer.