18 June 2020

Purva Kulkarni, Postdoctoral Bioinformatician at the Translational Metabolic Laboratory (TML), Department of Laboratory Medicine has been awarded the Metabolomics Society Early Career Travel Award to present her work titled - Towards precision diagnostics: Untargeted metabolomics for the diagnosis of inborn errors of metabolism in individual patients.

She will present a talk on this work during the virtual meeting of the Metabolomics Society organized for the year 2020. She is a part of the research theme Metabolic disorders and establishes her own group in bioinformatics of mass spectrometry based -omics data to improve rare disease diagnostics and therapy monitoring.
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