Prof. Dr. Sumner acquired his B.Sc. degree in chemistry in 1989 from Cameron University in Lawton, OK, USA, and his Ph.D. in analytical chemistry focused on mass spectrometry in 1993 from Oklahoma State University in Stillwater, OK, USA. He then joined Texas A&M University, College Station, TX, where he was the Director of the Mass Spectrometry Applications Laboratory and where he later served as the Cofounder and Associate Director of the TAMU Laboratory for Biological Mass Spectrometry. He joined the Noble Foundation in 1999 and rose to the rank of Professor within the Plant Biology Division. Prof. Dr. Sumner relocated to the University of Missouri, Columbia, in January 2016 and became a Professor in the Division of Biochemistry and Director of the new University of Missouri Metabolomics Center. Prof. Dr. Sumner’s research focuses on the development, integration, and application of large-scale biochemical profiling of plant metabolites, proteins, and transcripts (metabolomics, proteomics, and transcriptomics) for the discovery and characterization of the molecular and biochemical components related to the biosynthesis of plant natural products/specialized metabolites. He also actively applies these integrated omics technologies in a collaborative manner to develop greater insight into health and disease in a large number of species, including humans. A current focal area is cancer.