Dr Elizabeth J Want

Dr Want is the Waters Lecturer in Molecular Spectroscopy in the Department of Biomolecular Medicine, Imperial College. I joined Imperial College in 2006 after working as a postdoctoral researcher at the Scripps Research Institute in La Jolla, CA. I gained my undergraduate degree in Biochemistry from Bath University and PhD from Kings College, London. At Imperial College, I was initially a postdoctoral researcher for the Consortium for Metabonomic Toxicology (COMET) group and still have a role in this study. 

Research Interests

·            The development of mass spectrometry based metabolite profiling technologies for areas including:

o        Drug toxicity

o        Liver disease

o        Neurodegenerative diseases

·            The development of chemometric techniques for the analysis and interpretation of mass spectrometry data