Chris Vorster

I qualified in 1998 as a medical doctor and in 2007 as a specialist in chemical pathology. I worked in the private health care sector for several years before joining the North-West University in 2010. I am currently the director of the Centre for Human Metabolomics (CHM), a DSI funded entity with the aim of establishing sophisticated metabolomics infrastructure and expertise in South Africa that enables state of the art metabolic research and diagnostics. In this capacity I oversee all diagnostic services and several national and international contract research projects at the CHM. In addition to my director responsibilities, I work as a pathologist and interpret and sign out laboratory reports on a daily base, whenever time permits. My own research interests are in inherited metabolic diseases, small molecule method development and nanodiagnostics. I have acted as supervisor for both Masters and PhD students and have published several publications.