Professor Frank Pullen
Job title
Professor of Pharmaceutical Analysis
Department
Pharmaceutical, Chemical & Environmental Sciences
Qualifications
PhD, CSci, CChem, FRSC
Professor Frank Pullen has 30 years' experience in organic mass spectrometry within the pharmaceutical industry, an indepth knowledge in drug discovery and development and published in peer reviewed journals.
He is on the editorial board for the journal, Rapid Communications in Mass Spectrometry, and is also a member of the EPSRC grant review college.
Professor Pullen is currently the holder of the British Mass Spectrometry Lectureship; a position that is bestowed for a one year duration. He is also a member of the Advisory Board to the British Mass Spectrometry Society; Chairman of the Scientific Advisory Board for the University of York's Centre of Excellence for Mass Spectrometry; and sits on the Editorial Board of the journal Rapid Communications in Mass Spectrometry.
Responsibilities within the university
Course participation
Pharmaceutical Analysis and Testing, Maths and Stats
Pharmaceutical Analysis and Testing
MPhil and PhD supervision
Paul Abu-Rabie
Cristian Lapthorn
Nazanin Zand Fard
Recent publications
Abaye, D.A., Pullen, F.S., and Nielsen, B. (2011) Practical considerations in analysing neuropeptides, calcitonin gene-related peptide and vasoactive intestinal peptide, by nano-electrospray ionisation and quadrupole time-of-flight mass spectrometry: monitoring multiple protonations. Rapid Communications in Mass Spectrometry V RCM, 25(8), pp. 1107–16.
Zand, N., Chowdrey, B.Z., Zotor, F.B., and Pullen, F.S. (2011). Essential and trace elements content of commercial foods in the UK. Food Chemistry, 128(1), pp. 123–28.
Pullen, F.S. et al. (2010) Using density functional theory to rationalise the mass spectral fragmentation of maraviroc and its metabolites. Rapid Communications in Mass Spectrometry, 24, pp. 1025–31.
Pullen, F.S. (2010) The fascinating history of the development of LC-MS; a personal perspective. Chromatography Today, 3(1).
Pullen, F.S. et al. (2009) Effect of increasing concentration of ammonium acetate as an additive in supercritical fluid chromatography using CO2-methanol mobile phase. Journal of Chromatography A 1216, pp. 6441–50.
