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Professor Oliver Fiehn has pioneered developments and applications in metabolomics with over 260 publications. Since 2004, he has served as Professor at the University of California, Davis. Since 2012, he has served as Director of the NIH West Coast Metabolomics Center, supervising 35 staff operating 17 mass spectrometers in his research and the separate service laboratories.

Professor Fiehn’s research aims to understand metabolism on a comprehensive level. He focuses on standardizing metabolomic reports and establishing metabolomic databases and libraries, for example, the MassBank of North America. He applies metabolomics to metabolic questions in human population cohorts, animal models, cells, and microorganisms. He collaborates with a range of investigators for interpreting metabolomic data in human diseases through statistics, text mining, and pathway-based mapping efforts. He also studies fundamental biochemical questions from metabolite damage repair to the new concept of epimetabolites, the chemical transformation of primary metabolites that gain regulatory functions in cells.