David Wishart

Ph.D. - Chief Informatics Officer, Co-founder

David holds a Ph.D. from Yale (1991) and is a Professor in the Departments of Biological Sciences and Computing Science at the University of Alberta. He is also a senior research officer and the director of the Nano Life Science program at the Canadian National Research Council’s National Institute for Nanotechnology. From 2006-2009, David led the “Human Metabolome Project” (HMP), a multi-university, multi-investigator project that cataloged all of the known metabolites in human tissues and bio-fluids. Using advanced methods David and his colleagues identified or found evidence for more than 8500 endogenous metabolites. The methods and ideas developed for the HMP have helped lay the foundation for a number of clinical metabolomics projects currently being pursued in his lab. David has published more than 40 papers in the field of metabolomics and currently directs the Metabolomics Innovation Centre.