Mass Spectrometry and Nutrition Research

Prof. Dr. Martin Kussmann leads the Functional Genomics Group at the Nestle Research Centre and is Honorary Professor at the Faculty of Science, Aarhus University, Denmark. His team at Nestle is responsible for Nutrigenomics and Nutrigenetics. They develop and integrate gene and protein expression profiling with bioinformatics and computational molecular science. Major application fields are immunology, diabesity, and digestive health. Being educated as an analytical biochemist, Prof. Kussmann has acquired research experience in the pharmaceutical (Pharmacia-Upjohn/Sweden, Cerbios-Pharma/Switzerland), biotechnological (Prof. Dr. D. Hochstrasser, GeneProt/ Switzerland) and nutritional (Nestle) industry. Prof. Kussmann holds a M.Sc. and a Ph.D. in Chemistry, obtained at the Universities of Aachen and Konstanz, Germany, and at the University of California, San Francisco, USA (Prof. Dr. A. L. Burlingame). During his doctorate and post-doctorate (Prof. P. Roepstorff, University of Southern Denmark, Odense), he has specialised in analytical biochemistry, proteomics and genomics. Prof. Kussmann has co-authored 50 peer-reviewed publications, has edited books and journal issues, and is an internationally requested author and speaker. He is a member of the ASBMB (Am. Soc. Biochem. Mol. Biol.), DGMS (German Soc. Mass Spectrom.), NuGO (European Nutrigenomics Organization), SGMS (Swiss Soc. Mass Spectrom.) and SPS (Swiss Proteomics Soc.). He is an Editorial Board Member of the Journal of Proteomics; The Open Journal of Proteomics; Proteomics Insights; and Endocrine, Metabolic and Immune Disorders - Drug Targets (EMID-DT).