Rima Kaddurah-Daouk

Past President of the Metabolomics Society
Associate Professor
Director of Pharmacometabolomics Center
Duke University Medical Center, Durham, NC 27710, USA.
Tel: (617) 621-1516
Fax: (617) 621-1510
Email: kaddu001@mc.duke.edu / rima@metabolomicssociety.org

Dr. Kaddurah Daouk received her education in biochemistry at the American University of Beirut and subsequently trained in molecular biology at the Johns Hopkins Medical School where she worked with Nobel Laureate Dr. Hamilton Smith on mechanism of protein-DNA recognition. Subsequent training and research at the Harvard Medical School and the Massachusetts Institute of Technology enabled her to combine biochemical and biological approaches that led to the identification of genes and pathways possibly implicated in cancer Biology and neuronal cell survival. She has authored key papers around the concept of energy impairment in disease and has over forty patents and patent applications around her findings. These discoveries enabled the establishment of two biotechnology companies that moved the research from the bench to the clinic.

Dr. Kaddurah-Daouk is one of the pioneers in the field of metabolomics and plays a leading role in its development. She established the Metabolomics Society and serves as its first president. She also co-founded one of the leading biotechnology companies in the field of metabolomics and is establishing a National Metabolomics Research Network. She is actively involved in organizing meetings and workshops in the field of metabolomics nationally and internationally. She recently joined the faculty at Duke University Medical Center department of psychiatry where she is building several programs that bridge genetic and biochemical global -omics approaches to bring a deeper understanding of pathways implicated in disease and in drug response.