Robert Plumb PhD

Dr. Robert Plumb is the Director of Metabolic Phenotyping and Stratified Medicine in the Waters Health Sciences Business Operations Division, based in Milford, Massachusetts. Dr. Plumb has published100 papers on the subject of HPLC/MS and NMR for bioanalysis, metabolomics and metabolite identification. He is a recognized expert in the use of liquid chromatography with mass spectrometry, capillary scale LC, purifications scale LC and metabonomics, giving many invited papers at international meetings around the world. After obtaining an honors degree in Chemistry from the University of Hertfordshire in 1992, he started work in at Glaxo Research and Development Drug Metabolism Department. During his time at Glaxo and later Glaxo Wellcome he continued his research in liquid chromatography combined with NMR and mass spectrometry for metabolite identification and bioanalysis obtaining his PhD in 1999.
Dr. Plumb continued his work for Glaxo Wellcome with the responsibility of metabolite identification using HPLC/MS/NMR and new analytical technology development. In 2001, he moved to Waters Corporation in Milford, MA, USA where he was responsible for the Life Science Chromatography group and laterly LC/MS applications in the Pharmaceutical Market Development Group before becoming the Director of Metabolic Phenotyping. He is currently a visiting Professor in Analytical Chemistry at Kings College London, visiting Professor at Imperial College in the Dept. of Surgery and Cancer and a Fellow of the Royal Society of Chemistry. In 2014, he was awarded as Highly Cited Researcher by Thomson Reuters.