Perdita Barran

Perdita Barran
Born
Perdita Elizabeth Barran
EducationGodolphin and Latymer School
Alma materUniversity of Manchester (BSc)
University of Sussex (PhD)
Scientific career
FieldsChemistry
Biomarkers
Parkinson's disease
Mass spectrometry
Ion-mobility spectrometry–mass spectrometry[1]
InstitutionsUniversity of Manchester
University of Edinburgh
University of California, Santa Barbara
ThesisStudies of refractory clusters produced from a pulsed arc source (1998)
Websitewww.research.manchester.ac.uk/portal/perdita.barran.html

Perdita Elizabeth Barran is a Professor of Mass Spectrometry at the University of Manchester. She is Director of the Michael Barber Centre for Collaborative Mass Spectrometry.[1][2] She develops and applies ion-mobility spectrometry–mass spectrometry to the study of molecule structure and is searching for biomarkers for Parkinson's disease. She is Associate Dean for Research Facility Development at the University of Manchester. In 2020 and 2021 she was seconded to work for the Department of Health and Social Care as an advisor on the use case for mass spectrometry as a diagnostic method for diagnosis of COVID infection.

  1. ^ a b Perdita Barran publications indexed by Google Scholar Edit this at Wikidata
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