DMPK Insights #5: Mass Spectrometry Imaging – Past, Present and Future
About this Podcast on Mass Spectrometry Imaging
In this podcast, Josephine Bunch, Principal Research Scientist and Co-Director of the National Centre of Excellence in Mass Spectrometry (NiCE-MSI) at NPL, talks about her work, and in particular her involvement in the Cancer Research UK Grand Challenge Programme.
The episode explores the following:
- Recent innovations in MSI
- Challenges associated with analyzing ever more complex molecules
- Label-free vs labelled imaging
- Hardware and software improvements and how these affect the industry
- Combining imaging techniques to extract maximum information
- Exciting developments for the future, including personalized medicine and the innovative technologies that will make this a reality
Capabilities
Speaker:
Josephine Bunch, Ph.D. – Principal Research Scientist and Co-Director of the National Centre of Excellence in Mass Spectrometry Imaging (NiCE-MSI) at NPL
Josephine completed a Ph.D. in mass spectrometry imaging at Sheffield Hallam University, followed by a post-doc appointment at the University of Sheffield. Josephine then led a research group at the University of Birmingham, where she also lectured in Chemistry and Imaging. Josephine is currently based at the National Physics Laboratory where she is Co-Director of the National Centre of Excellence in Mass Spectrometry Imaging (NiCE-MSI) and is also Chair of Biomolecular Mass Spectrometry at Imperial College London. She is currently leading the Cancer Research UK Grand Challenge programme – a fascinating project that aims to deliver new insights into cancer and cancer treatments using the latest mass spectrometry imaging techniques.
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