LC-MS Metabolomics Center

The Biocenter Kuopio LC-MS Metabolomics Center focuses on development and use of mass spectrometry based methods in metabolite, drug, and protein analysis. These analyses are related to wide variety of research projects in the areas of medicine, biology, drug development, nutrition, and environmental sciences.

The facility has two high-resolution LC-MS instruments (LC-qTOF-MS (Agilent 6540) and LC-Orbitrap-MS (Q-Exactive Focus)), and two LC-QQQ-MS as key instrumentation. In addition, the center has several other instruments, such as GC-MS, NMR and HPLC-UV/DAD/FD/ECD, elemental analyzer and AAS, related to analysis of wide variety of different kind of samples.

The main analytical services are described in these pages. For pricing and scheduling, please contact the members of the center below. The customers are strongly advised to contact the laboratory, when the experimental setup is planned, as sample collection has major effect on analysis.

Seppo Auriola, professor seppo.auriola (at) uef.fi School  of Pharmacy Faculty of Health Sciences University of Eastern Finland P.O. Box 1627 FI-70211 Kuopio, Finland PL 1627 70211 Kuopio

Marko Lehtonen, Laboratory Manager, Ph.D.(Chem.) marko.lehtonen (at) uef.fi School of Pharmacy / Pharmaceutical Chemistry Faculty of Health Sciences University of Eastern Finland P.O.Box 1627 FI-70211 Kuopio Finland Phone: +358 40 355 2250