Dr. Gloria M. Sheynkman is an Assistant Professor at the University of Virginia with primary appointments in Molecular Physiology and Biological Physics and secondary appointments in Biochemistry and Molecular Genetics, and she is a member of the UVA Comprehensive Cancer Center. She earned her B.S. in Biochemistry from the University of Notre Dame, completed her Ph.D. in Chemistry under Dr. Lloyd Smith at the University of Wisconsin–Madison, and trained in high-throughput functional proteomics with Dr. Marc Vidal at Dana-Farber Cancer Institute and Harvard Medical School. Her interdisciplinary lab combines advanced mass spectrometry, long-read RNA sequencing, single-molecule protein sequencing, and machine-learning–driven network biology to map proteoforms and uncover their roles in cardiovascular disease and cancer. An ASMS Emerging Investigator and recipient of the FACS Tomas A. Hirschfeld Award, she has authored over 40 peer-reviewed publications, serves on multiple NIH study sections, and advises on proteogenomics and emerging protein-measurement technologies.