Baljit Ubhi's Biography

Baljit Ubhi, Global Staff Scientist

Dr Baljit is currently the global staff scientist for metabolomics & lipidomics application development at SCIEX and is based on the West Coast in California, USA. In this role, she has global responsibilities, to drive key collaborations, generate scientific proof statements and works closely with the marketing, product management, R&D and applications team as well as many other responsibilities. Dr Baljit joined SCIEX as an application scientist in Europe in November 2011 after finishing her Ph.D. studies at the University of Cambridge, where she applied metabolomics to disease biomarker research in the group of Dr Julian Griffin. Prior to this, she held a research scientist position in the metabolic profiling group at GlaxoSmithKline R&D in the UK where she evaluated biomarkers from the effects of drug toxicity in support of drug candidate selection and development. Over the last 2 years Baljit has been significantly involved in a new product from SCIEX, the Lipidyzer PlatformTM. She led and managed the day-to-day working of the technical teams from SCIEX as well as partnering companies Metabolon and Avanti Polar Lipids, to move lipidomics mass spectrometry to another level.