Professor and Cystic Fibrosis Canada Researcher; Dep. Chemistry & Chemical Biology, McMaster University
Biography
Philip Britz-McKibbin is a Professor at the Department of Chemistry and Chemical Biology and Cystic Fibrosis Canada Researcher based at McMaster University. Prior to starting his current position, he completed his doctorate research with David D.Y. Chen at the Univ. of British Columbia (2000) followed by a visiting lecturer position at the Univ. of North Carolina at Greensboro in USA (2001) and a post-doctoral fellowship with Shigeru Terabe at Himeji Institute of Technology in Japan (2003). His research interests in bio-analytical chemistry and metabolomics include the design of new analytical strategies to quantify and identify metabolites in biological samples using innovative separation, mass spectrometric and bioinformatic tools. Philip's laboratory aims to discover new biochemical markers that support early detection and treatment of human diseases relevant to population/occupational health and pediatric/perinatal medicine with emphasis on inherited metabolic disorders and the developmental origins of health and disease. His research has been funded by NSERC, CFI, CIHR, Cystic Fibrosis Foundation of Canada, the Ontario Genomics Institute, and the Ontario Ministry of Labour. He has presented over 100 invited talks and published more than 70 peer-reviewed articles, including 6 invited reviews, 5 book chapters, 2 technical reports and 4 filed patents with 2 licenses. Dr. Britz-McKibbin is the recipient of several prestigious awards, including the American Chemical Society - Young Investigator Award in Separation Science (2010), Japan Society for Promotion of Science (2009), Petro-Canada Young Investigator Award (2007) and Premier's Research Excellence Award (2004). Philip is a recent Evaluation Group Member in Chemistry for NSERC Discovery Grant program, an editorial board member in Chemical Biology of Scientific Reports, a Founding Advisory Board Member of the US Chapter of the Metabolomics Society and an affiliate member of the Metabolomics Innovation Centre.
