David S. Wishart MPhil, PhD

Dr. David S. Wishart, MPhil, Ph.D., is a Professor in the Department of Biological Sciences and Computing Science at the University of Alberta. He is also a senior research officer and the director of the Nano Life Science program at the NRC’s National Institute for Nanotechnology (NINT). He has been with the University of Alberta since 1995. Dr. Wishart has active research programs in structural biology, nanobiology, synthetic biology, prion biology, bioinformatics, and metabolomics. Some of his lab's most significant contributions have been in the area of protein chemical shift analysis and the prediction of protein structure.

He is responsible for the creation of metabolomics databases in Edmonton that receive over 20 million hits a year, thus making Edmonton the center of the world's most influential metabolomics databases.