Warwick Dunn
Manchester Centre for Integrative Systems Biology,
Manchester Interdisciplinary Biocentre,
University of Manchester,
131 Princess Street,
Manchester, M1 7DN, United Kingdom.
Email: warwick.dunn@manchester.ac.uk
Dr Warwick (Rick) Dunn obtained a BSc (Hons) degree in Chemistry with Analytical Chemistry and Toxicology at The University of Hull followed by a PhD at BP Chemicals and The University of Hull focused on the placement of mass spectrometers on industrial chemical process plants. He has developed a passion for academic life and since 2003 he has worked at The University of Manchester, first as a post-doctoral researcher with Professor Douglas Kell and currently as an Experimental Officer in The Manchester Centre for Integrative Systems Biology, where he focuses on applying mass spectrometry in metabolomic studies. Warwick has performed metabolomics research for 9 years and has concentrated his research in the application of quantitative metabolomics and systems biology to primarily investigate microbial and mammalian systems. He has 16 years' experience in industry and academia developing analytical biochemistry techniques (chromatography and mass spectrometry) and has applied these skills to develop and validate methods for holistic metabolic profiling and targeted quantitative analysis of metabolites in complex biological systems. These have included the coupling of chromatography to mass spectrometry platforms (GC-MS, GCxGC-MS, UPLC-MS). Warwick's current research interests include novel approaches for metabolite identification and characterization, yeast metabolism (quantitative metabolic models and flux measurements), discovery of pre-symptomatic metabolic biomarkers of human diseases (pre-eclampsia, heart diseases, diabetes) and the pathophysiological study of mammalian diseases (heart, bowel and kidney diseases, diabetes and pre-eclampsia). Warwick has published greater than 40 peer-reviewed papers in diverse fields and is currently involved in the construction of The Centre for Advanced Discovery and Experimental Therapeutics (CADET), a clinical systems biology centre in Manchester, UK.