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Prof. Jeremy Nicholson
Professor Jeremy Nicholson is Pro Vice Chancellor of Health Sciences at Murdoch University in Perth, Western Australia, where he leads the Australian National Phenome Centre (ANPC). In 2012, Nicholson was appointed Director and Principle Investigator of the MRC-NIHR National Phenome Centre based at Imperial College London, where he had led the Department of Surgery and Cancer since 2009. In 2018, he became Emeritus Professor of Biological Chemistry at Imperial College. The same year, Prof. Nicholson moved to Perth to take up his role as PVC of Health Sciences at Murdoch. Nicholson holds honorary professorships at 12 universities and multiple professorships at the Chinese Academy of Sciences, to which he was elected as an Albert Einstein Honorary Professor in 2014. He was recently appointed as a special adviser to the Minister of Health in Western Australia. He is also founder-director, chief scientist and chief scientist officer at Metabometrix, an Imperial College London spin-off company specialising in molecular phenotyping, clinical diagnostics and toxicological screening via metabonomics and metabolomics. Prof. Nicholson’s research interests include spectroscopic and chemometric approaches to the investigation of disturbed metabolic processes in complex organisms.He is known for having developed metabonomics, also referred to as metabolic profiling. He brings world-leading research expertise to his role as the CRC’s Research Program 3 lead.
2020 CRC Research Showcase round-up
On 2 December 2020, the CRC hosted its first online Research Showcase, highlighting projects approved, in progress and completed under our three Research Programs (RPs) over the CRC's first full year of operation.
FFS team goes west
Recently, two key members of the FFS team paid a productive visit to our partners in Western Australia.
2022 Precision Nutrition Symposium: A world-class exposition of ANPC’s precision nutrition program
On 14 October 2022, the Australian National Phenome Centre (ANPC) and Centre for Computational and Systems Medicine (CCSM) organised a successful inaugural research symposium on precision nutrition at Murdoch University that featured early findings from Future Food Systems CRC’s ‘Food metabolomic library’ project. The symposium was well attended and included representatives from various Western Australian...
State-of-the-art food metabolomics library launched in Western Australia
A just-commenced CRC project involving Murdoch University's ANPC, WA DPIRD, global scientific equipment firm Bruker and SMEs across WA will develop unique chemical fingerprints to validate health claims, expanding markets for premium WA products.
Future Food Systems eNews issue # 18 – September 2021
Highlights this month include the CRC’s first major functional food project with WA DPIRD and Bruker, a robotics collaboration with commercial grower P’Petual, and a project to map protecting cropping facilities nationally led by Hort Innovation. We introduce a new international partner, Qatar University, and update you on partner news, funding opportunities and events. And...
Future Food Systems eNews issue # 7 – October 2020
From the CEO It’s been a productive month as the team works with industry and research partners to complete a raft of new project agreements before the end of the year. New projects in the works include three with Western Australian partners, a Greenbio/QUT vertical farming initiative, and a major foundation project for protected-cropping innovation...
ANPC and Bruker patent fast new way to detect COVID-19 infection
Researchers at Murdoch University's ANPC and Bruker have filed a patent on a fast new way to detect COVID-19 infection: testing for SARS-covid-2's biological 'fingerprint’.
Meet Dr Elaine Holmes: Microbiome-diet expert
This brilliant scientist was the first in her family to attend university. But for Elaine Holmes, world-leading metabolic scientist, WA Premier’s Research Fellow and recent recipient of a prestigious Australian Laureate ARC Fellowship, academia proved a natural fit.
New Australian research centre will transform human health worldwide
The establishment of the Australian National Phenome Centre (ANPC) at Murdoch University, a key research partner of the Future Food Systems CRC, will advance our understanding of the human phenome, underpinning more sophisticated personalised medicine and paving the way for the development of an array of high-value ‘precision nutrition’ food products and nutraceuticals. The new...