Elaine Holmes

Elaine Holmes (PhD) is an Australian Research Council Laureate Fellow and Professor of Computational Medicine at Murdoch University and a Professor of Chemical Biology at Imperial College London. Her main research area focuses on applying metabolic profiling and computational modelling of biofluids and tissues to understand pathological and physiological disease processes. She has applied the technology in several clinical and biomedical areas including Cardiovascular Disease, Diabetes, Infection, Gastrointestinal Disease, Early life environment and neurodegeneration. She co-developed the concept of the metabolome-wide association study (MWAS) and is currently driving new methods for the integration of metabonomic data with proteomic and transcriptomic data is order to gain a holistic overview of disease process. She has particular interest in the identification of biomarkers of metabolic diseases and obesity and much of her current work focuses on the role of the microbiota in promoting obesity and liver disease. She is a founder director of Melico, a start-up company that operates in the personalised nutrition space and is a visiting professor at Sam Pablo Universidad CEU Madrid, King AbdulAziz University Saudi Arabia and the Chinese Academy of Sciences Wuhan China. She has authored over 500 papers and books in metabolic profiling and chemometrics. She is a Fellow of the Academy of Medical Sciences and has won several awards including the Royal Society of Chemistry Interdisciplinary Award and Lifetime membership of the Metabolomics Society. Her current focus is to develop metabolic profiling capacity in Western Australia and apply it to both population and precision medicine.