[1] After graduating in 1997 Ge moved to the United States, where she joined Cornell University as a doctoral student.
[citation needed] Ge joined the University of Wisconsin–Madison as an assistant scientist, where she oversaw the mass spectrometry programme.
To image the very large proteins of human heart tissue, Ge combines fourier-transform ion cyclotron resonance (FT–ICR) mass spectrometry with electron-capture dissociation.
[4] She has worked to create a top-down disease proteomic platform that allows for the separation, detection and characterisation of the biomarkers of heart damage.
[7] The peptide-functionalised superparamagnetic nanoparticles are combined with top-down mass spectrometry to identify the molecular fingerprints of troponins.