Harrison Specht, PhD

Postdoctoral Research Fellow, Slavov Lab Northeastern University Department of Bioengineering and the Barnett Institute of Chemical and Biological Analysis

Harrison Specht graduated from Cornell University with a Bachelor’s in Chemistry magna cum laude. Harrison then made his way to Cambridge, Massachusetts to work at the Broad Institute of MIT and Harvard’s Proteomics Platform under the direction of Dr. Steve Carr, contributing the proteomics experiments and data analysis for a highly-cited Cell paper demonstrating the role of reduced ribosome levels in the disease Diamond-Blackfan Anemia. Subsequently, joined Nikolai Slavov’s lab where he published as lead author on influential single-cell proteomics papers, including the first widely accessible and independently reproduced single-cell MS proteomics method, SCoPE2. Harrison has garnered an award from the Royal Society of Chemistry, was named a “Rising Star” by the Journal of Proteome Research in 2021 for “incredible originality and promise for the future of proteomics and metabolomics” and has been awarded funding from the National Science Foundation’s I-Corps program for the commercialization of technologies related to single cell proteomics.