Democratizing healthcare & participatory medicine | Anne Bendt

Anne Bendt
Deputy Director](https://www.lsi.nus.edu.sg/corp/principal-investigators-4/dr-anne-k-bendt/)) and Principal Investigator at Singapore Lipidomics Incubator SLING](https://www.sling.sg/)), Life Sciences Institute in Singapore.

Favorite metabolite
Tuberculostearic acid](https://www.hmdb.ca/metabolites/HMDB0004085))
A long-chain fatty acid produced by the bacteria responsible for tuberculosis, and investigated as a potential diagnostic biomarker of the disease and drug target. Learn more about tuberculostearic acid in the episode!

Papers discussed
On clinical metabolomics | Fux et al. 2024 A global perspective on the status of clinical metabolomics in laboratory medicine - a survey by the IFCC metabolomics working group](https://www.degruyterbrill.com/document/doi/10.1515/cclm-2024-0550/html)) Clin Chem Lab Med.

On PFAS and lipidomics | Narasimhan et al. 2024 Integrated analysis of per- and polyfluoroalkyl substances and plasma lipidomics profiles in multi-ethnic Asian subjects for exposome research](https://ehjournal.biomedcentral.com/articles/10.1186/s12940-024-01145-4)) Environmental Health

Additional resources
Learn more about the International Federation of Clinical Chemistry and Laboratory Medicine (IFCC) Metabolomics working group](https://ifcc.org/ifcc-emerging-technologies-division/etd-working-groups/wg-m/)) and the International Lipidomics Society (ILS)-driven ceramides ring trial | Torte et al. 2024 Concordant inter-laboratory derived concentrations of ceramides in human plasma reference materials via authentic standards](https://www.nature.com/articles/s41467-024-52087-x)) Nature Communications

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Finally available – Alice’s book on metabolomics data interpretation
The STORY principle – A guide to the biological interpretation of metabolomics