Jeevan Prasain
Jeevan K. Prasain received his Ph.D. in 1998 from the Toyama Medical & Pharmaceutical University, Japan. He was a visiting fellow at the Biotechnology Research Institute, Montreal, Canada and then joined the Institute of Physical and Chemical Research (RIKEN), Japan in 2000 as a postdoctoral fellow where he worked on the use of tandem mass spectrometry in dereplication of natural products. He moved to the USA in 2001 and joined Dr. Stephen Barnes’ group at the University of Alabama at Birmingham (UAB). Currently, he is an Assistant Professor at the UAB and his research interests include the use of tandem mass spectrometry in the study of metabolomics, lipidomics, bioavailability and pharmacokinetics of dietary natural products.