Staff Profile
Dr Maria Duenas Fadic
Marie Curie Sklodowska Fellow
- Email: maria.duenas@ncl.ac.uk
- Personal Website: https://www.ncl.ac.uk/medical-sciences/research/institutes/biosciences/
- Address: Biosciences Institute
Cookson Building
Faculty of Medical Sciences
Newcastle University
Framlington Place
NE2 4HH
I completed my B.S. in Chemistry at the Universidad San Francisco de Quito (Ecuador) in 2013. In 2018, I obtained my Ph.D. degree in Analytical Chemistry from Iowa State University (United States) after working in Dr. Young Jin Lee’s group. My research focused on advancing the field of metabolomics using high-spatial resolution MALDI mass spectrometry imaging.
I am currently a Marie Skłodowska-Curie postdoctoral fellow at Newcastle University (United Kingdom) in Dr. Matthias Trost’s Laboratory of Biomedical Mass Spectrometry. Here, I am developing high-throughput MALDI-TOF mass spectrometry metabolite screening cellular assays for drug discovery in human disease. Moreover, I have expertise in quantitative proteomics investigating inflammatory disease, and implement thermal proteome profiling mass spectrometry techniques to identify protein targets and off-targets of drugs.
I am a member of the Biosciences Institute and work in the Discovery of Medicines and Cell Signalling research theme.
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- Hatton CF, Botting RA, Duenas ME, Haq IJ, Verdon B, Thompson BJ, Spegarova JS, Gothe F, Stephenson E, Gardner AI, Murphy S, Scott J, Garnett JP, Carrie S, Powell J, Khan CMA, Huang L, Hussain R, Coxhead J, Davey T, Simpson AJ, Haniffa M, Hambleton S, Brodlie M, Ward C, Trost M, Reynolds G, Duncan CJA. Delayed induction of type I and III interferons mediates nasal epithelial cell permissiveness to SARS-CoV-2. Nature Communications 2021, 12(1), 7092.