Our History
The metabolomics Quality Assurance and quality Control Consortium (mQACC) was established in February 2018 with the goal to develop a collaborative effort among relevant stakeholders in academic, industry and government institutions to address key quality assurance (QA) and quality control (QC) issues in the untargeted metabolomics field. The consortium formed as a result of the Think Tank on Quality Assurance and Quality Control for Untargeted Metabolomics Studies, a meeting held at the National Cancer Institute in October 2017.
Our Members
The consortium currently includes representatives from Asia, Australia, Europe, North America, and South America, including instrument manufacturers, commercial metabolomics laboratories, and government and academic stakeholders.
Coordinating Committee
• Jennifer Kirwan, Ph.D. (Chair)
Berlin Institute of Health, Berlin, DE
• Jonathan Mosley, Ph.D.
U.S. Environmental Protection Agency, Athens, GA, USA
• Annie Evans, Ph.D.
Metabolon, Inc., Research Triangle Park, NC, USA
Past Coordinating Committee Members:
• Warwick Dunn, Ph.D. (7/2019-12/2020), University of Liverpool, Liverpool, UK
• Christina Jones, Ph.D. (7/2019-12/2021), National Institute of Standards and Technology, Gaithersburg, MD, USA
• Rick Beger, Ph.D. (7/2019-12/2022), Food and Drug Administration, Jefferson, AK, USA
• Matthew Lewis, Ph.D. (1/2021-12/2023), Bruker Life Sciences Mass Spectrometry, London, UK
| Member Name | Institution/Company |
|---|---|
| David E. Alonso | LECO Corporation |
| Bashar Amer | Thermo Fisher Scientific |
| Shaowei An | Westlake University |
| Panagiotis Arapitsas | Edmund Mach Foundation of San Michele all'Adige |
| Juan Aristizabal-Henao | BERG Health |
| Anna Artati | Helmholtz Zentrum Munchen |
| Abbas Bandukwala | Food and Drug Administration |
| Aiko Barsch | Bruker Daltonics |
| Amanda L Bayless | National Institute of Standards and Technology |
| Chris Beecher | IROA Technologies |
| Rick Beger | National Center for Toxicological Research, US Food and Drug Administration |
| Susan S. Bird | Thermo Fisher Scientific |
| John Bowden | University of Florida |
| Lorraine Brennan | University College Dublin (UCD) |
| Corey Broeckling | Colorado State University |
| Karl Burgess | University of Edinburgh |
| Donald Chace | Medolac Laboratories |
| Pantelis Charisiadis | Cyprus University of Technology |
| Haley A. S. Chatelaine | NIH/NCATS |
| Leo Cheng | Massachusetts General Hospital & Harvard Medical School |
| Joo-Youn Cho | Seoul National University |
| Clary Clish | Broad Institute of MIT and Harvard |
| Raquel Cumeras | Institut d'Investigació Sanitària Pere Virgili |
| Daniel Cuthbertson | Agilent Technologies |
| W. Clay Davis | National Institute of Standards and Technology |
| Rick Dunn | University of Liverpool |
| Tim Ebbels | Imperial College London |
| Abigail Elizabeth | University of Georgia |
| James K Ellis | Imperial College London |
| Annie Evans | Metabolon Inc. |
| Facundo M. Fernandez | Georgia Institute of Technology |
| Oliver Fiehn | UC Davis West Coast Metabolomics Center |
| Roberto Flores | National Cancer Institute |
| Manon Fradin | BioTwin |
| Flavio Antonio Franchina | University of Ferrara |
| Michael R. La Frano | University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign |
| Gianfranco Frigerio | University of Luxembourg |
| Brianna M. Garcia | Woods Hole Oceanographic Institute |
| Ryland Giebelhaus | University of Alberta |
| Helen Gika | Aristotle University of Thessaloníki |
| Srujana Golla | Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai |
| Víctor González-Ruiz | CEU-San Pablo University |
| Roy Goodacre | University of Liverpool |
| Kelli Goodman | Metabolon Inc. |
| Goncalo J. Gouveia | University of Georgia |
| Nicola Gray | Australian National Phenome Centre |
| Amy Harms | Leiden University, Biomedical Metabolomics Facility Leiden |
| Thomas Hartung | John Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health |
| James J. Harynuk | University of Alberta |
| Ana Sofia Henriques da Costa | Matterworks Inc |
| Michael Herold | Basf Metabolome Solutions GmbH |
| David Herrington | Wake Forest University |
| Rick Higashi | University of Kentucky |
| Ping-Ching Hsu | University of Arkansas for Medical Sciences |
| Paolo Inglese | Imperial College London |
| David Jimenez-Morales | Stanford University |
| Christina Jones | National Institute of Standards and Technology |
| Drew R. Jones | NYU Langone Health |
| Kyo Bin Kang | Sookmyung Women's University |
| Michael Kiebish | BERG Health |
| Jennifer Kirwan | Berlin Institute of Health |
| Frank Klont | University of Groningen |
| Julia Kuligowski | Health Research Institute La Fe |
| Renny Lan | Arkansas Children's Nutrition Center |
| Cristian Lewis Lapthorn | Jeonbuk National University |
| Nathan G Lawler | Australian National Phenome Centre, Murdoch University |
| Brittany A. Lee | Seer Inc |
| Jiajun Lei | Lawrence J. Ellison Institute for Transformative Medicine |
| Matthew Lewis | Bruker Life Sciences Mass Spectrometry |
| Dorrain Yanwen Low | Nanyang Technological University |
| Teresa Mairinger | University of Natural Resources and Life Sciences (BOKU) |
| Julia Maria Malinowska | European Commission, Joint Research Centre (JRC) |
| Katherine Manz | University of Michigan |
| Callum Stephen Martin | European Bioinformatics Institute (EMBL-EBI) |
| Paulina de la Mata | University of Alberta |
| Maria Eugenia Monge | Centro de Investigaciones en Bionanociencias (CIBION), Consejo Nacional de Investigaciones Científicas y Técnicas (CONICET) |
| Jonathan Mosley | US Environmental Protection Agency |
| Laura Moussa | FDA, National Center for Toxicological Research |
| Rafea Naffa | Fonterra Co-operative Group Limited |
| Sindhu Nair | The Metabolomics Innovation Center |
| Luk Najdekr | Palacký University |
| Judith B. Ngere | University of Oxford |
| Gavin O Connor | Phzsikalisch Technische Bundesanstalt (PTB) |
| lvaro Fern ndez Ochoa | Berlin Institute of Health |
| Claire O'Donovan | European Molecular Biology Laboratory - European Bioinformatics Institute |
| George Papanicolaou | National Heart, Lung and Blood Institute (NHLBI) |
| Khyatiben Pathak | Translational Genomics Research Institute |
| Thomas William Payne | European Molecular Biology Laboratory - European Bioinformatics Institute (EMBL-EBI) |
| Andrew Percy | Cambridge Isotope Laboratories, Inc. |
| Marie Phelan | University of Liverpool |
| Robert Plumb | Waters Corporation |
| Robert Powers | University of Nebraska, Lincoln |
| Nicole Prince | Brigham Women’s Hospital |
| Estelle Pujos-Guillot | INRAE |
| Dan Raftery | University of Washington |
| Anas Abdel Rahman | King Faisal Specialist Hospital and Research Center (KFSHRC) |
| Nichole Reisdorph | University of Colorado |
| Michael Schmidt | Sovaris Aerospace |
| Oliver Schmitz | BASF Metabolome Solutions |
| Tracey Schock | National Insitutes of Standards and Technology |
| Sapna Sharma | Technical University of Munich |
| Stacy D. Sherrod | Center for Innovative Technology (CIT) |
| Pierre-Hugues Stefanuto | University of Liège |
| Jinchun Sun | National Center for Toxiological Research, U.S. FDA |
| Panteleimon Takis | University of Ioannina |
| Fariba Tayyari | Northwestern University |
| Alpesh Thakker | GSK |
| Georgios Theodoridis | Aristotle University |
| Federico Torta | National University of Singapore |
| Candice Ulmer Holland | USDA-FSIS |
| Mukesh Verma | National Cancer Institute |
| Dajana Vuckovic | Concordia University |
| Tilmann Walk | BASF Metabolome Solutions GmbH |
| Ian Wilson | Imperial College London |
| Michael Witting | Helmholtz Zentrum Munchen |
| Rachel Wurth | Mayo Clinic |
| Li-Rong Yu | National Center for Toxiological Research, U.S. FDA |
| Krista Zanetti | National Cancer Institute |
| Bo Zhang | Olaris, Inc. |
| Min Zhang | Purdue University |