Biography & Research:
Loïc Dayon received his PhD in Bioanalytical Chemistry from the Ecole Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne (Switzerland) in 2006. He completed his education in the Biomedical Proteomics Group at the University of Geneva before being employed as a Senior Research Scientist at Proteome Sciences plc (London, UK). His activities within these groups covered the discovery of innovative brain disease markers, the development of mass spectrometry-based quantitative approaches for proteomics, and the separation of peptides with liquid chromatography and isoelectric focusing.
Loïc Dayon joined the Nestlé Institute of Health Sciences in 2011 as a Proteomics/Metabolomics Scientist. The focus of his team is the development and deployment of proteomic methods in pre-clinical and clinical research. Large-scale clinical proteomic studies are performed in the fields of brain and metabolic health to allow innovation in personalized nutrition and diagnostics.