Craig Wheelock

Craig Wheelock performed his doctoral work with Dr. Bruce Hammock at UC Davis in Agricultural and Environmental Chemistry. Following a postdoctoral stint in the Hammock laboratory, he moved to Kyoto Japan in 2004, where he performed postdoctoral studies at the Bioinformatics Center in the Institute for Chemical Research at Kyoto University. In 2006, he moved to the Karolinska Institute in Sweden, where he currently heads the Integrative Molecular Phenotyping laboratory (http://www.metabolomics.se). Research in the Wheelock laboratory is focused on the use of mass spectrometry-based approaches to perform molecular phenotyping at the population level. The interests of the group are centered on understanding the pathophysiology of inflammatory respiratory diseases, particularly asthma. An emphasis of the group is the targeted analysis of lipid mediators (e.g., eicosanoids, sphingolipids) and investigating their role in the etiology of inflammatory disease. As part of our molecular phenotyping efforts, we develop the analytical, statistical and informatics methods necessary to concatenate and interrogate ‘omics-based data structures.