Pieter Dorrestein

Pieter Dorrestein, PhD is a professor at the University of California, San Diego. He is the Director of the Collaborative Mass Spectrometry Innovation Center and a Co-Director of the Institute for Metabolomics Medicine in the Skaggs School of Pharmacy & Pharmaceutical Sciences and Department of Pharmacology and Pediatrics. Since his arrival to UCSD in 2006, Dr. Dorrestein has been pioneering the development of mass spectrometry methods to study the chemical ecological crosstalk between populations of microorganisms, including host interactions for agricultural, diagnostic and therapeutic applications. He participated in panels for the White House Office of Science and Technology Policy on the launch of a national microbiome initiative and has been on panels for the National Academy of Sciences on the chemistry of the microbiome. In total, he has co-authored 220 scientific publications and his work has been featured by The Wall Street Journal, CNN, The New York Times, Fox, BBC and hundreds other news outlets. He has been recognized with many awards, among them are from the Beckman Foundation, V-foundation in cancer research, EUREKA award for unconventional and enabling research, Hearst Foundation, as well as the Pharmaceutical Research and Manufacturing Association Research award and the Abel award in pharmacology.