Collaborators
Osama Aldirbashi, Assistant Professor, Department of Pediatrics, Children’s Hospital of Eastern Ontario, Ottawa, Canada
Research Collaborations: Metabolomics for discovery of improved markers for screening cystic fibrosis in affected infants
https://med.uottawa.ca/pediatrics/people/al-dirbashi-osama
Sonia Anand, Professor, Faculty of Health Science, Medicine, McMaster University, Hamilton, Canada
Director: Population Genomics Program; Vascular Medicine Clinic, Hamilton Health Sciences
Research Collaborations: Prognostic markers of metabolic syndrome in young children for population health; Food-specific markers for validation of lifelong dietary exposures
https://experts.mcmaster.ca/display/anands
Stephanie Atkinson, Professor, Faculty of Health Science, Pediatrics, McMaster University, Hamilton, Canada
Research Collaborations: Metabolomics studies of cord blood as well as maternal serum from early and late pregnancy analyzing circulatory metabolites important during fetal development
https://experts.mcmaster.ca/display/satkins
Premsyl Bercik, Associate Professor, Faculty of Health Science, Medicine, McMaster University, Hamilton, Canada
Research Collaborations: Metabolomic studies of gnobiotic mice for evaluating transferable behavior traits and brain-gut axis; Diagnostic markers of irritable bowel syndrome
https://experts.mcmaster.ca/display/bercikp
Pranesh Chakraborty, Associate Professor, Department of Pediatrics, Children’s Hospital of Eastern Ontario, Ottawa, Canada
Director: Newborn Screening Ontario
Research Collaborations: Metabolomics for discovery of improved markers for screening cystic fibrosis in affected infants
https://med.uottawa.ca/pediatrics/people/chakraborty-pranesh
Russell de Souza, Associate Professor, Faculty of Health Sciences, Health Research Methods, Evidence, and Impact, McMaster University, Hamilton, Canada
Research Collaborations: Nutritional metabolomics and the classification of dietary biomarker candidates
https://experts.mcmaster.ca/display/desouzrj
Turlough Finan, Professor, Department of Biology, McMaster University, Hamilton, Canada
Research Collaborations: Characterization of the enzyme activity of amino acid racemases/epimerases
https://experts.mcmaster.ca/display/finan
Martin Gibala, Professor, Department of Kinesiology, McMaster University, Hamilton, Canada
Research Collaborations: Metabolomics for validation of physical activity and nutritional-based interventions that promote human health
https://experts.mcmaster.ca/display/gibalam
Stephen Hill, Associate Professor, Department of Pathology and Molecular Medicine, McMaster University, Hamilton, Canada
Director: Clinical Biochemistry Training Program
Research Collaborations: Sweat metabolomic studies of screen-positive cystic fibrosis infants; Clinical validation of biochemical assays for laboratory medicine
https://experts.mcmaster.ca/display/hills1
Gilberto Kac, Professor, Department of Social and Applied Nutrition, Federal University of Rio de Janeiro, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil
Research Collaborations: Using metabolomics to assess the breastfeeding practices, nutritional status, food consumptions, and micronutrient deficiencies in Brazilian children under five years of age
https://enani.nutricao.ufrj.br/
Howard Lee, President of Clinitox Diagnostix Inc. and CEO of Seroclinix Labs Inc., Mississauga, Canada
Research Collaborations: High throughput screening of drugs by multisegment injection-capillary electrophoresis-mass spectrometry
http://www.seroclinix.com/eng/
Jim McNulty, Professor, Departments of Chemistry and Chemical Biology, McMaster University, Hamilton, Canada
Research Collaborations: Design and synthesis of pharmacological chaperones for protein misfolding
https://experts.mcmaster.ca/display/jmcnult
Joe Macri, Associate Professor, Department of Pathology and Molecular Medicine, McMaster University, Hamilton, Canada
Research Collaborations: Clinical validation of biochemical assays for laboratory medicine
https://experts.mcmaster.ca/display/macrij
Giuseppe Melacini, Professor, Departments of Chemistry and Chemical Biology/Biochemistry and Biomedical Sciences, McMaster University, Hamilton, Canada
Research Collaborations: Biomolecular interactions and protein unfolding; NMR-based metabolomics
https://experts.mcmaster.ca/display/melacin
David Mutch, Associate Professor, Department of Human Health and Nutritional Sciences, University of Guelph, Guelph, Canada
Associate Director: Biomarker Discovery and Human Nutraceutical Research
Research Collaborations: Metabolomics for unraveling the heterogeneous phenotype of human obesity
https://www.uoguelph.ca/hhns/people/dr-david-m-mutch
Yoshiaki Ohashi, Chief Scientific Officer of Human Metabolome Technologies (HMT), Tsuruoka, Japan
Research Collaborations: New advances in metabolomics and unknown metabolite identification by capillary electrophoresis-mass spectrometry
http://humanmetabolome.com/en/
Nikhil Pai, Assistant Professor, Faculty of Health Science, Pediatrics, McMaster University, Hamilton, Canada
Research Collaborations: Metabolomic studies of dietary interventions for treatment of inflammatory bowel diseases and irritable bowel syndrome in children and young adults
https://experts.mcmaster.ca/display/pain
Guillaume Paré, Professor, Faculty of Health Science, Pathology and Molecular Medicine, McMaster University, Hamilton, Canada
Research Collaborations: Using metabolomics to prospectively investigate the influences of CVD, diabetes, lung disease, cancers and kidney disease (studying disease progression and disease onset)
https://experts.mcmaster.ca/display/pareg
Linda Pedder, Associate Professor, Faculty of Health Science, Pediatrics, McMaster University, Hamilton, Canada
Medical Director: Pediatric Cystic Fibrosis Clinic
Research Collaborations: Sweat metabolomic studies of screen-positive cystic fibrosis infants; Clinical
https://experts.mcmaster.ca/display/pedderl
Stuart Phillips, Professor, Department of Kinesiology, McMaster University, Hamilton, Canada
Director: Physical Activity Centre of Excellence; McMaster Centre for Nutrition, Exercise and Health
Research Collaborations: Metabolomics for validation of physical activity and nutritional-based interventions that promote human health
https://experts.mcmaster.ca/display/phillis
Murray Potter, Associate Professor, Faculty of Health Science, Pathology and Molecular Medicine, McMaster University, Hamilton, Canada
Research Collaborations: Newborn screening of inherited metabolic disorders; Metabolomics for Dietary assessment of phenylketonuria patients
https://experts.mcmaster.ca/display/mpotter
Zena Samaan, Associate Professor, Faculty of Health Sciences, Psychiatry and Behavioral Neurosciences McMaster University, Hamilton, Canada
Research Collaborations: High throughput drugs of abuse screening platform for clinically depressed in-patient
https://experts.mcmaster.ca/display/samaanz
Deborah Sloboda, Associate Professor Department of Biochemistry and Biomedical Sciences, McMaster University, Hamilton, Canada
Research Collaborations: Placenta-based metabolomic studies of high fat diet in mice; Early life dietary exposures on metabolic health of developing fetus
https://experts.mcmaster.ca/display/sloboda
Joanna Wilson, Associate Professor, Department of Biology, McMaster University, Hamilton, Canada
Research Collaborations: Label-free screening of the functional activity of cytochrome P450 enzymes
https://experts.mcmaster.ca/display/wilsojo
David Wishart, Professor, Departments of Biological Sciences and Computer Science, University of Alberta, Edmonton, Canada
Director: The Metabolomics Innovation Centre (TMIC)
Research Collaborations: Round-robin testing and cross-platform validation of complementary instrumental methods for quantitative metabolomic studies
Salim Yusuf, Professor, Faculty of Health Science, Medicine, McMaster University, Hamilton, Canada
Executive Director: Population Health Research Institute (PHRI)
Research Collaborations: Predicting health outcomes using prospective metabolomic analyses, specifically studying the relationship between diet, health care, gender differences, air pollution and disease; Studying smokes from high, middle and low income countries to better understand and rationalize the variations in risk from smoking