Saheer E Gharbia Editor

Haroun N. Shah led the establishment of unique laboratory capabilities, transforming Public Health Laboratory Services’ identification of new and emerging threats through mass spectrometry combined with molecular technologies between 1999-2015. After his retirement, he continued to provide expert advice and training to industry and academia to advance innovations and embed new applications of proteomics across biosciences.

Saheer E. Gharbia is the Deputy Director of Gastrointestinal Infection and Food Safety for the UK Health Security Agency and has led the COVID-19 Genomics Programme to support the response to the COVID-19 pandemic. She continues to develop tools for the analysis and interpretation of complex biological and pathogenic traits and works across the One Health Scientific Community to embed common surveillance mechanisms to detect and track emerging threats.

Ajit J. Shah is a Professor in Bioanalytical Science in the Department of Natural Science, Middlesex University, UK.

Erika Y. Tranfield is Scientific Affairs Manager Microbiology at Bruker.

K. Clive Thompson is Chief Scientist at ALS, Life Sciences, UK, an analytical testing organisation in the UK and Ireland.