Reid Townsend has joined the Alvin J. Siteman Cancer Center at Washington University School of Medicine and Barnes-Jewish Hospital in St. Louis, Mo. He will be the director of the Washington University Proteomics Center. His new appointment officially starts April 1. In addition to directing the center, he will be an associate professor. Townsend joins the university from Oxford GlycoSciences in Abingdon, UK, where he has been director for proteomics research.