The Handbook of Metabonomics and Metabolomics, 1st Edition

John Lindon

John Lindon is a Professor and Senior Research Investigator in the Section of Biomolecular Medicine, part of the Department of Surgery and Cancer, Faculty of Medicine, Imperial College London, UK. He is also a founder Director of, and a Consultant to, Metabometrix Ltd, a company spun out of Imperial College to exploit the commercial possibilities of metabonomics. He obtained his B.Sc, Ph.D. and D.Sc degrees from Birmingham University UK, was a postdoctoral fellow at Columbia University, New York, USA (1969-1970), then joined the Chemistry Department of Southampton University UK, to use NMR methods to research the properties of liquid crystals and to be responsible for the NMR laboratory. From 1976 to 1995 he was at the Wellcome Research Laboratories (a pharmaceutical company) in the UK, latterly as Head of Spectroscopy, which is now part of GlaxoSmithKline. He then joined Birkbeck College, University of London, and moved to Imperial College London as part of the transfer of the metabonomics team in 1998. He has co-authored a book on NMR of oriented molecules, another on metabonomics in toxicology and, in 2007, one on metabonomics in general. He is Editor-in-Chief of the Encyclopedia of Spectroscopy and Spectrometry, serves on the editorial boards of a number of journals and has authored many review articles and chapters, plus around 400 research papers. His achievements include the pioneering of a range of NMR data acquisition and processing methods, the use of nematic liquid crystals and NMR spectroscopy for determing accurate molecular structures in the liquid state, and the application of spectroscopy and other physical chemistry methods in drug design. Developments of NMR-based approaches in biomedical research include the use of directly-coupled HPLC-NMR, application of high resolution magic-angle-spinning NMR to tissue samples, and the use of NMR and other analytical methods coupled with multivariate statistics to study biofluids and tissues, a field now termed metabonomics.

Affiliations and Expertise

Imperial College London, UK