Elaine Holmes
Imperial College London
Author of more than 500 scientific papers with more than 40'000 citations, Elaine established NMR as a reference technique for metabolic profiling.
Since 2008, the Latin American NMR School (LANMR) seeks to strengthen the NMR community in Colombia
Key research objectives of 21st Century science are maximizing energy and agricultural resources and understanding the relative contributions of genes, diet, lifestyle and other environmental factors that determine disease risk and therapeutic responses of individuals and whole populations. Analytical methods such as Nuclear Magnetic Resonance (NMR), can be used to produce highly reproducible fingerprints of biological samples, characterize new material, foster discovery of new molecules, provide insight about interactions between macromolecules, study the ion flow in batteries, etc. Despite the potential of NMR to tackle the challenges of our century, dedicated facilities are limited in Latin America due to the high investment required, lack of equipment, low availability of trained scientists and low standardization of the technology among others. This is why NMR will be at the center of this encounter co-organized between Universidad del Valle, Universidad Nacional de Colombia and Universidad de los Andes, to gather experts and promote collaborative projects that will impact health, agriculture and industry.
