Development of novel analytical approaches to make robust analyses more available

我最近将我的主要研究项目改为与营养科学系（Balazs Bajka博士）的合作项目，开发以易于部署的形式检测生物样品中的氨基酸和脂肪酸的分析方法。通常，研究人员会采集血液样本进行分析。这是昂贵和不方便的，并不是所有人都能轻易获得。为了克服这些缺点，我们要求并致力于研究是否可以从干血斑样本中检测和量化氨基酸和脂肪酸，从而进行更大规模、更廉价的营养研究。方法学——这将从学习和实施标准协议开始，以开发用于比较的参考数据集，并开发用于鉴定、检测和定量干燥血斑样本中氨基酸和脂肪酸的新分析方法。该项目的另一个分支是开发方法，分析由营养学家进行的体外消化实验中的产品，以评估营养物质的生物利用度。

I have recently changed my primary research project to a collaborative project with the Department of Nutritional Sciences (Dr Balazs Bajka) developing analytical methods for detecting amino acids and fatty acids in biological samples in readily deployable formats.Proposed question - Usually, researchers take blood samples for analysis. This is costly and inconvenient and is not readily available to the whole population. To overcome these drawbacks, we ask and aim to investigate if amino acids and fatty acids can be detected and quantified from samples of dried blood spots, to enable larger cheaper nutritional studies.Methodology - this would start by learning and implementing standard protocols to develop a reference data set for comparison and developing novel analytical methods for the identification and detection and quantification of amino acids and fatty acids in dried blood spot samples. Another branch of the project is to develop methods to analyse products from in vitro digestion experiments which are done by nutritionists to assess nutrient bioavailiability.