Dr Maria Emilia Dueñas

I completed my B.S. in Chemistry at the Universidad San Francisco de Quito (Ecuador) in 2013. In 2018, I obtained my Ph.D. degree in Analytical Chemistry from Iowa State University (United States) after working in Dr. Young Jin Lee’s group. My research focused on advancing the field of metabolomics using high-spatial resolution MALDI mass spectrometry imaging. I am currently a Marie Skłodowska-Curie postdoctoral fellow at Newcastle University (United Kingdom) in Dr. Matthias Trost’s Laboratory of Biomedical Mass Spectrometry. Here, I am developing high-throughput MALDI-TOF mass spectrometry metabolite screening cellular assays for drug discovery in human disease. Moreover, I have expertise in quantitative proteomics investigating inflammatory disease, and implement thermal proteome profiling mass spectrometry techniques to identify protein targets and off-targets of drugs.