Sunu Lama

Bio: Sunu has been an Erasmus Mundus scholar of the joint master’s degree program “EACH: Excellence in Analytical Chemistry” at the University of Tartu, Estonia (Master 1) and the University Claude Bernard Lyon 1, France (Master 2). She holds a bachelor’s degree in pharmacy from Purbanchal University, Nepal and has gained professional experience as a pharmacist at Ohm Pharmaceutical Laboratories in Nepal. During her master’s studies, she completed a six-month internship at LABERCA, ONIRIS, France in the “Alimentation” department under the Mixed Research Unit. Her research focused on analysing oligoesters and monomers in food coating materials (FCMs) and their gastrointestinal (GI) fates to ensure food's chemical safety, utilising LC/GC coupled with an Orbitrap high-resolution mass analyser. This experience has been a significant highlight in her academic journey where she garnered a wide range of research and analytical skills. Additionally, an opportunity to collaborate with the pharmacy researchers team of the University Santiago de Compostela, Spain, during the same project deepened her understanding of in vitro GI digestion and the protocols employed to investigate the same. Furthermore, her master’s first-year internship at the Estonian Environmental Research Centre (EERC), Estonia specialising in “environmental chemistry”, was another invaluable experience. With these professional experiences, spanning various laboratories encompassing both “analytical chemistry” and “pharmacy”, amalgamated with her academic foundations, now her goal is to apply these analytical experimental and computational approaches to study molecular biology and leverage this knowledge to promote and enhance efficient pharmaceutical drug delivery systems. By participating in this promising scholarly research project “PROHITS”, she aspires to delve deeper into single-cell proteomics, uncovering its hidden dimensions and making a meaningful contribution to this scientific community. "

Project: MS methods development for thermal proteome profiling and single cell analysis

Supervisor: Dr. Christine Carapito