David Wishart
Professor, Departments of Biological Sciences and Computing Science, University of Alberta, Canada
Education and Outreach Advisory Board, Scientific Advisory Board
Since 1995, David has been a professor at the University of Alberta. Currently, he is a Distinguished University Professor in the Departments of Biological Sciences and Computing Science with adjunct appointments in the Faculty of Pharmaceutical Sciences and the Department of Pathology and Laboratory Medicine. His research interests are broad and include metabolomics, analytical chemistry, food chemistry, natural product chemistry, molecular biology, protein chemistry and neuroscience. He has developed several widely used techniques using NMR spectroscopy, mass spectrometry, liquid chromatography and gas chromatography to characterize the structures of both large and small molecules. He has led the “Human Metabolome Project” (HMP), a multi-university, multi-investigator project that catalogued >250,000 human metabolites in human tissues and biofluids. More recently, his efforts have focused on characterizing the chemical constituents in various foods (through the FooDB database) and food-associated biomarkers.