David S. Wishart

David S. Wishart FRSC (born December 7, 1961) is a Canadian researcher and a Distinguished University Professor in the Department of Biological Sciences and the Department of Computing Science at the University of Alberta. Wishart also holds cross appointments in the Faculty of Pharmacy and Pharmaceutical Sciences and the Department of Laboratory Medicine and Pathology in the Faculty of Medicine and Dentistry. Additionally, Wishart holds a joint appointment in metabolomics at the Pacific Northwest National Laboratory in Richland, Washington. Wishart is well known for his pioneering contributions to the fields of protein NMR spectroscopy, bioinformatics, cheminformatics and metabolomics.^[1][2][3] In 2011, Wishart founded the Metabolomics Innovation Centre (TMIC),^[4] which is Canada's national metabolomics laboratory.

Wishart is a successful serial entrepreneur. Since 1995 he has launched 8 successful start-up biotech companies, including Chenomx,^[5] OMx Personal Health Analytics^[6] and Molecular You Corp.^[7] With more than 500 publications and >100,000 citations over his career,^[8] he has been consistently ranked among the world's top 100 scientists in any discipline^[9][10] and among the world's top 200 life scientists.^[11]