David S. Wishart

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Canadian Researcher

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David Wishart
FRSC
BornDecember 7, 1961 (1961-12-07) (age 62)
Edmonton, Alberta, Canada
Alma materUniversity of Alberta
Yale University
OccupationProfessor
Known for
Awards
  • Canadian Research Chair Tier 1 (2023)
  • J. Gordin Kaplan Award for Excellence in Research (2023)
  • Distinguished University Professor (2018)
  • University of Alberta Alumni Award (2017)
  • ASTech Awards (1999, 2021)
  • Lifetime Fellowship, Metabolomics Society (2014)
Scientific career
Fields
InstitutionsUniversity of Alberta
Websitewww.wishartlab.com, www.tmicwishartnode.ca

David S. Wishart FRSC (born December 7, 1961) is a Canadian researcher in metabolomics and a Distinguished University Professor in the Department of Biological Sciences and the Department of Computing Science at the University of Alberta. Wishart also holds cross appointments in the Faculty of Pharmacy and Pharmaceutical Sciences and the Department of Laboratory Medicine and Pathology in the Faculty of Medicine and Dentistry. Additionally, Wishart holds a joint appointment in metabolomics at the Pacific Northwest National Laboratory in Richland, Washington. Wishart is well known for his pioneering contributions to the fields of protein NMR spectroscopy, bioinformatics, cheminformatics and metabolomics.[1][2][3] In 2011, Wishart founded the Metabolomics Innovation Centre (TMIC),[4] which is Canada's national metabolomics laboratory.

Wishart is also a biotech entrepreneur. Since 1995 he has launched eight start-up biotech companies, including Chenomx,[5] OMx Personal Health Analytics[6] and Molecular You Corp.[7] With more than 500 publications and >100,000 citations over his career,[8] he has been consistently ranked among the world's most cited scientists in any discipline[9][10] and among the world's most cited 200 life scientists.[11]

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  4. ^ "People". The Metabolomics Innovation Center. Retrieved 2022-04-08.
  5. ^ "Chenomx Inc | Metabolite Discovery and Measurement". Retrieved 2022-04-08.
  6. ^ "DrugBank | About DrugBank". www.drugbank.com. Retrieved 2022-04-08.
  7. ^ "Our Team – Molecular You". molecularyou.com. Retrieved 2022-04-08.
  8. ^ "David Wishart". scholar.google.com. Retrieved 2022-04-08.
  9. ^ Ioannidis, John P. A.; Baas, Jeroen; Klavans, Richard; Boyack, Kevin W. (2019-08-12). "A standardized citation metrics author database annotated for scientific field". PLOS Biology. 17 (8): e3000384. doi:10.1371/journal.pbio.3000384. ISSN 1545-7885. PMC 6699798. PMID 31404057.
  10. ^ Baas, Jeroen; Boyack, Kevin; Ioannidis, John P. A. (19 October 2021). "August 2021 data-update for "Updated science-wide author databases of standardized citation indicators"". 3. Elsevier BV. doi:10.17632/btchxktzyw.3. Retrieved 17 December 2022. {{cite journal}}: Cite journal requires |journal= (help)
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