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David Wishart

ResearcherBiological SciencesUniversity of Alberta

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David Wishart

Researcher

Biological Sciences

Health Sciences

University of Alberta

Edmonton, Alberta, Canada

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21 publications in the last five years, latest in 2026.
Principal investigator on 22 research grants (14 NSERC, 8 CIHR), most recently in 2025.
Supervisor on 1 trainee award (1 CIHR), most recently in 2024.

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Research

Metabolomics Mass Spectrometry Nmr Bioinformatics Early Stage Diagnosis Lung Screening Machine Learning Novel Biomarker Panel

Latest papers

Effects of alendronate and vitamin D on plasma metabolomic profiles in a rat model of osteoporosis.
Journal of pharmacological and toxicological methods · 2026
The MassBank contributions of the mFam collaboration.
Metabolomics : Official journal of the Metabolomic Society · 2026
Facile Epitaxial Growth of Novel Nanoscale Ag-MAFs on Reverse Osmosis Membranes: Enhancing Performance, Antibacterial Activity, and (Bio)fouling Resistance.
ACS omega · 2025

All 61 publications

Latest funding

AI-Powered DrugBank Curation
NSERC · 2025 · Principal investigator
$200,000
Exploring Inter-Individual Variability in Response to Dietary Interventions to Counter Muscle Loss in Cancer: A Precision Nutrition Perspective
CIHR · 2024 · Supervisor
$210,000
Global Center: International Research Center for Enhancing Plant Resilience
NSERC · 2024 · Co-investigator
$421,000

All 36 grants and awards

61 publications.

Effects of alendronate and vitamin D on plasma metabolomic profiles in a rat model of osteoporosis.

Hamza A, Wishart D, Doschak MR

Journal of pharmacological and toxicological methods2026

DOI: 10.1016/j.vascn.2025.108404 PMID: 41412429

The MassBank contributions of the mFam collaboration.

Ahlendorf A, Aharoni A, Vahabi K, Fischer TG, Allard PM, Augustin M, Bathe U, Broadhurst DI, Broeckling C, Buescher J, Covaci A, da Silva KM, de Vos RCH, Devi MG, Döll S, Frey M, Frolov A, Gaquerel E, Gautam V, Charria-Girón E, Goossens A, Grosjean J, Halabalaki M, Iturrospe E, Kultima K, Herman S, Kutchan TM, Larbat R, Meier R, Mikropoulou EV, Mouille G, Nicolotti L, Shahaf N, Perreau F, Pétriacq P, Reichelt M, Reinke SN, Robeyns R, Soboleva A, Spring O, Sreenivasan AP, Tissier A, Totozafy JC, Tsugawa H, Valls-Fonayet J, van de Lavoir M, van der Hooft JJJ, Vergara F, Wishart D, Wessjohann LA, Wolfender JL, Ziegler J, Balcke GU, Neumann S

Metabolomics : Official journal of the Metabolomic Society2026

DOI: 10.1007/s11306-026-02480-y PMID: 42390619

Facile Epitaxial Growth of Novel Nanoscale Ag-MAFs on Reverse Osmosis Membranes: Enhancing Performance, Antibacterial Activity, and (Bio)fouling Resistance.

Seyedpour SF, Karami P, Khoshhal Salestan S, Aghapour Aktij S, Singh U, Huang S, Chew JW, Rahimpour A, Wishart D, Sadrzadeh M

ACS omega2025

DOI: 10.1021/acsomega.5c02816 PMID: 40657074

Changes in metabolite profiles in the cerebrospinal fluid and in human neuronal cells upon tick-borne encephalitis virus infection.

Suyama S, Boxall S, Grace B, Fořtová A, Pychova M, Krbkova L, Mandal R, Wishart D, Griffin DE, Růžek D, Goonawardane N

Journal of neuroinflammation2025

DOI: 10.1186/s12974-025-03478-4 PMID: 40517242

Current advances in diabetic neuropathy: Proteins as therapeutic targets.

Kaur G, Ali SO, Santos A, Okdahl T, Wegeberg AM, Ahluwalia TS, Hansen CS, Wishart D, Wewer Albrechtsen NJ, Brock B, Jensen TS, Rossing P, Brock C, Legido-Quigley C, Sulek K

iScience2025

DOI: 10.1016/j.isci.2025.113466 PMID: 41169500

Point-of-Care Urine Metabolomics Test to Diagnose Colorectal Cancers in Low- and Middle-Income Countries: A Pilot Controlled Trial in Southwestern Nigeria.

Adeomi AA, Alatise OI, Wishart D, MacKay S, Olasehinde O, Wuraola F, Adisa A, Mohammed T, Aderounmu A, Betiku OA, Omoyiola OZ, Adeleye AO, Ogunleye SO, Babatunde OJ, Ademakinwa OR, Owoade IA, Mobolaji J, Olcese C, Kahn R, Choonawala NR, Fitzgerald G, Hosgood HD, Kingham TP

JCO global oncology2025

DOI: 10.1200/go-25-00062 PMID: 40768684

Interlaboratory comparison of standardised metabolomics and lipidomics analyses in human and rodent blood using the MxP® Quant 500 kit.

Zararsiz GE, Lintelmann J, Cecil A, Kirwan J, Poschet G, Gegner HM, Schuchardt S, Guan XL, Saigusa D, Wishart D, Zheng J, Mandal R, Adams K, Thompson JW, Snyder MP, Contrepois K, Chen S, Ashrafi N, Akyol S, Yilmaz A, Graham SF, O'Connell TM, Kalecký K, Bottiglieri T, Limonciel A, Pham HT, Koal T, Adamski J, Kastenmüller G

bioRxiv : the preprint server for biology2024

DOI: 10.1101/2024.11.13.619447 PMID: 39605511

Serum Metabolites Relate to Mucosal and Transmural Inflammation in Paediatric Crohn Disease.

Suarez RG, Guruprasad N, Tata G, Zhang Z, Focht G, McClement D, Navas-López VM, Koletzko S, Griffiths AM, Ledder O, de Ridder L, Wishart D, Nichols B, Gerasimidis K, Turner D, Wine E

Journal of Crohn's & colitis2024

DOI: 10.1093/ecco-jcc/jjae085 PMID: 38842257

A Comparison of Dry Bean and Pea Consumption on Serum Cholesterol: A Randomized Controlled Trial in Adults with Mild Hypercholesterolemia.

Bell RC, Zahradka P, Aliani M, Liang Y, Jarman M, MacKenzie M, Chan C, Ozga J, Proctor S, Wishart D, Taylor CG

The Journal of nutrition2024

DOI: 10.1016/j.tjnut.2024.09.011 PMID: 39357673

An Overview of Pre-Analytical Factors Impacting Metabolomics Analyses of Blood Samples.

Thachil A, Wang L, Mandal R, Wishart D, Blydt-Hansen T

Metabolites2024

DOI: 10.3390/metabo14090474 PMID: 39330481

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Principal investigatorNSERC2025Mitacs Accelerate

Principal investigators: Wishart, David

Keywords: Human pharmaceuticals

$200,000

Exploring Inter-Individual Variability in Response to Dietary Interventions to Counter Muscle Loss in Cancer: A Precision Nutrition Perspective

SupervisorCIHR2024CIHR Fellowship

Principal investigators: Ramos da Silva, Bruna

Keywords: Colon Cancer; Machine Learning; Malnutrition; Precision Nutrition; Protein

$210,000

Global Center: International Research Center for Enhancing Plant Resilience

Co-investigatorNSERC2024Alliance Grants

Principal investigators: Wilkins, Olivia O

Keywords: bioinformatics; chemical ontologies; chemical synthesis; computational biology; consumer behaviour; metabolomics; natural products; risk perception; spatial transcriptomics

$421,000

Advancing Socio-Economic Research for Evidence-Informed Public Health Decision-Making: Urban Shade as an Equitable Adaptation Approach to Extreme Heat in Canada

Co-investigatorSSHRC2023Partnership Engage Grants - Generating Evidence for Public Health Decision Making

Principal investigators: Grant, Lauren

Keywords: Advancing Socio-Economic Research for Evidence-Informed Public Health Decision-Making; Shade; Heat Mitigation; Climate Change Adaptation; Mortality; Heat-related Illness; Canada

$104,000

The Canadian Soil Data Portal - Transforming Canada's Soil Data Infrastructure to Facilitate GHG Reductions and Climate Change Mitigation

Co-investigatorNSERC2023Alliance Grants

Principal investigators: Heung, Brandon BL

Keywords: applied behaviour analysis; chemometrics; cost-benefit analysis; data mining; data sharing & privacy; digital soil data management; machine learning; pedometrics; predictive digital soil mapping; soil spectroscopy

$2,000,000

DrugBank-in-3D

Principal investigatorNSERC2023Alliance Grants

Principal investigators: Wishart, David S

Keywords: biotech drugs; drug conformations; drug-target complexes; drug targets; small molecule drugs; three dimensional structures

$200,000

Metabolomics and Precision Medicine

Principal investigatorNSERC2022Canada Research Chairs

Principal investigators: Wishart, David

Keywords: Metabolomics; Precision Medicine; Machine Learning; Biosensors; Natural Products; Indigenous Knowledge

$350,000

Comprehensive pathway generation of drug action and drug metabolism for DrugBank

Principal investigatorNSERC2021Alliance Grants

Principal investigators: Wishart, David

$153,848

A novel rapid, liquid biopsy early stage lung cancer diagnostic test

Nominated PICIHR2020Operating Grant: Sparks Grant - General Pool

Principal investigators: Wishart, David S

Keywords: Early Stage Diagnosis; Lung Screening; Machine Learning; Mass Spectrometry; Metabolomics; Novel Biomarker Panel; Test Kit

$75,000

Advanced surfaces for next generation hemodialysis technology._x000d_ _x000d_ _x000d_

Co-investigatorNSERC2020Alliance Grants

Principal investigators: Unsworth, Larry

$98,000

From CIHR, NSERC and SSHRC funding decisions: CIHR since 2008, NSERC since 1991 and SSHRC since 1998, including their latest published competition results.

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David Wishart

Research

Latest papers

Latest funding

Effects of alendronate and vitamin D on plasma metabolomic profiles in a rat model of osteoporosis.

The MassBank contributions of the mFam collaboration.

Facile Epitaxial Growth of Novel Nanoscale Ag-MAFs on Reverse Osmosis Membranes: Enhancing Performance, Antibacterial Activity, and (Bio)fouling Resistance.

Changes in metabolite profiles in the cerebrospinal fluid and in human neuronal cells upon tick-borne encephalitis virus infection.

Current advances in diabetic neuropathy: Proteins as therapeutic targets.

Point-of-Care Urine Metabolomics Test to Diagnose Colorectal Cancers in Low- and Middle-Income Countries: A Pilot Controlled Trial in Southwestern Nigeria.

Interlaboratory comparison of standardised metabolomics and lipidomics analyses in human and rodent blood using the MxP&#xae; Quant 500 kit.

Serum Metabolites Relate to Mucosal and Transmural Inflammation in Paediatric Crohn Disease.

A Comparison of Dry Bean and Pea Consumption on Serum Cholesterol: A Randomized Controlled Trial in Adults with Mild Hypercholesterolemia.

An Overview of Pre-Analytical Factors Impacting Metabolomics Analyses of Blood Samples.

AI-Powered DrugBank Curation

Exploring Inter-Individual Variability in Response to Dietary Interventions to Counter Muscle Loss in Cancer: A Precision Nutrition Perspective

Global Center: International Research Center for Enhancing Plant Resilience

Advancing Socio-Economic Research for Evidence-Informed Public Health Decision-Making: Urban Shade as an Equitable Adaptation Approach to Extreme Heat in Canada

The Canadian Soil Data Portal - Transforming Canada's Soil Data Infrastructure to Facilitate GHG Reductions and Climate Change Mitigation

DrugBank-in-3D

Metabolomics and Precision Medicine

Comprehensive pathway generation of drug action and drug metabolism for DrugBank

A novel rapid, liquid biopsy early stage lung cancer diagnostic test

Advanced surfaces for next generation hemodialysis technology._x000d_ _x000d_ _x000d_

Frequent collaborators

Atul Sharma

Peter Nickerson

Julie Ho

David Rush

Liang Li

Tom Blydt-Hansen

Stephen Vanner

Russ Greiner

Premysl Bercik

Giada De Palma

Catherine Chan

Bruce Carleton

Tammie Dewan

Chris Wiebe

Robert Bandsma

Eytan Wine

Janis Dionne

Lawrence Richer

Simon Rousseau

Michel Aliani

Spencer Proctor

Shaf Keshavjee

Philip Britz Mckibbin

Marco Puglia

Pieter Cullis

Interlaboratory comparison of standardised metabolomics and lipidomics analyses in human and rodent blood using the MxP® Quant 500 kit.