Robert Plumb, Ph.D., is an expert in application of LC/MS and NMR to drug metabolism studies, metabonomics and metabolite identification. Published over 100 papers on the application of these technologies to metabolism and metabonomics studies. He is an expert in the use of capillary LC and LC/MS/MS for bioanalytical studies. Dr. Plumb is also a Visiting Professor of Metabolic Profiling, Faculty of Medicine, Department of Surgery & Cancer at Imperial College.
The world is facing an unprecedented convergence of environmental and lifestyle factors that dramatically increase our risk of chronic disease. Global warming, antimicrobial resistance, aging populations, and the prevalence of lifestyle-related illnesses are systematically affecting populations around the world and posing some of the greatest scientific and public health threats seen in modern times. These…
Congratulations are in order as the University of Birmingham is the most recent university to expand the footprint of metabolic phenotyping research centres around the world. As state-of-the-art metabolic phenotyping facilities able to conduct small-scale and large-scale studies in medical research and stratified medicine, the Phenome Centre Birmingham joins the MRC-NIHR National Phenome Centre at…