Professor Chance is an internationally recognized expert in proteomics and structural biology who has built multiple science and training programs over a 30-year career in academia. He has published over 300 papers with over 15,000 citations. He is currently Vice Dean for Research and holds the titles of Distinguished University Professor, the Charles W. and Iona A. Mathias Professor of Cancer Research, as well as Professor appointments in the Departments of Nutrition, Genetics & Genome Sciences, and General Medical Sciences at the School of Medicine of Case Western Reserve University (CWRU). He is the founding director (since 2005) of the Center for Proteomics and Bioinformatics and founding director of the Center for Synchrotron Biosciences (since 1994). Prior to his appointment at CWRU, Dr. Chance was professor of Physiology and Biophysics at Albert Einstein College of Medicine.