ISAC

International Scientific Advisory Committee

The International Scientific Advisory Committee (ISAC) evaluates TMIC’s scientific progress and reports its findings and recommendations to the Board of Directors. 

The ISAC also provides advice and guidance to TMIC’s Management Committee to help ensure that TMIC achieves its stated objectives and milestones.

Current ISAC Members 2026

Lorainne Brennan

Appointed in April, 2024. Professor of Human Nutrition in University College Dublin.

Matej Orešič

Appointed in April, 2024. Professor at Örebro Universitry and Group Leader in Systems Medicine at the Turku Centre for Biotechnology, University of Turku.

Daina Avizonis

Appointed in 2018, Facility Manager and Research Associate, McGill Metabolomics Core Facility of the Rosalind and Morris Goodman Cancer Research Centre, Canada

Oliver Fiehn

Chair, Appointed in 2018. Director of the West Coast Metabolomics Center and Professor of Molecular and Cellular Biology at UC Davis, USA

Erin Baker

Appointed in 2026. Professor, Director of Graduate Studies at The University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill.

Past Members

Thomas O. Metz

Appointed in April, 2024. Director of the Pacific Northwest Advanced Compound Identification Core within the NIH Common Fund Metabolomics Program, co-PI of the Proteomics Laboratory for The Environmental Determinants of Diabetes in the Young consortium, Lead of the PNNL m/q Initiative, and an Adjunct Faculty member in the Department of Biochemistry and Biophysics at Oregon State University.

Reza Salek

Appointed in 2019, Bioinformatics Scientist-Nutrition and Metabolism, International Agency for Research on Cancer - France, Scientific Coordinator, Department of Biochemistry, EMBL European Bioinformatics Institute. Stepped down in 2024.

Claudio Luchinat

Appointed in 2018, Professor of Chemistry, Magnetic Resonance Centre and Department of Chemistry at the University of Florence, Italy. Stepped down in 2024.

Christoph Steinbeck

Appointed in 2018, Professor for Analytical Chemistry, Cheminformatics and Chemometrics at the Friedrich-Schiller University, Germany. Stepped down in July 2021.


We request that any publications, posters, or oral presentations resulting from work performed by The Metabolomics Innovation Centre acknowledge TMIC. This allows the Centre to report information such as impact on Canadian researchers to our funding agencies. Clients should also keep us apprised of any publications, posters, or oral presentations arising from work performed at TMIC.

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