Agilent Technologies Thought Leader Award Supports Professor John A. McLean, Vanderbilt University
Award Recognizes Pioneering Developments in Ion Mobility Q-TOF Technology for Lipidomic and Metabolomic Analysis
SANTA CLARA, Calif.--(BUSINESS WIRE)--
Agilent Technologies Inc. (NYSE:A) today announced that professor John A. McLean
has received an Agilent Thought Leader Award in recognition of his
contributions to ion mobility mass spectrometry (IM-MS) focused on
advanced applications, including comprehensive biomolecular systems
analysis and synthetic and chemical biology.
Dr. McLean is a Stevenson Professor of Chemistry at the Department of Chemistry at Vanderbilt University. He is co-director of the Automated Biosystems Core and deputy director of the Institute of Integrative Biosystems Research and Education.
The award will support Dr. McLean and his team at Vanderbilt in their
pioneering metabolomics and lipidomics research through the advancement
of ion mobility informatics and workflows.
“We are grateful to Agilent for this Thought Leader Award because it
affirms our research efforts in untargeted broad-scale molecular
analysis at the intersection of integrative biology and translational
research,” said Dr. McLean.
“We are pleased to recognize John McLean as an Agilent Thought Leader,”
said John C. Fjeldsted, Agilent’s senior director of LC/MS Research
and Development. “John and the Vanderbilt team demonstrate a unique
combination of driving fundamental instrumental development and
pioneering solutions to address tremendously complex real-time
biological applications.”
Dr. McLean and his team are using Agilent’s 6560 Ion Mobility Q-TOF LC/MS, 1290 UHPLC and data analysis and visualization software.
For details about Dr. McLean’s work, visit Agilent’s 2014 ASMS Media Kit
and select the presentation titled “Structural Mass Spectrometry for
the Analysis of Complex Biological Samples: Ion Mobility-Mass
Spectrometry for Broad-Scale Systems and Synthetic Biology.”
The Agilent Thought Leader Award promotes fundamental scientific
advances by contributing financial support, products and expertise to
the research of influential thought leaders in the life sciences,
diagnostics and chemical analysis. Information about previous award
recipients is available at Agilent’s Thought Leader Program website.
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