Rate My Professor Siddabasave Gowda

Siddabasave Gowda B. Gowda serves as Associate Professor in the Faculty of Health Sciences at Hokkaido University, with affiliations in the Graduate School of Health Sciences and the Graduate School of Global Food Resources. He holds a Doctor of Life Sciences degree, earned from the Graduate School of Life Sciences at Hokkaido University between October 2012 and March 2016. His academic background centers on synthetic organic chemistry, with expertise in sphingolipid synthesis, analysis, and biochemistry, as well as multi-lipidomics techniques employing gas chromatography and liquid chromatography-mass spectrometry.

Dr. Gowda’s research focuses on lipid synthesis and biochemistry, metabolomics, and analytical chemistry. Specific areas include global lipid profiling for disease biomarker discovery using advanced LC-MS methods, synthesis and functional studies of bioactive lipids such as fatty acid esters of hydroxy fatty acids (FAHFAs), oxylipins, and sphingosine-1-phosphate, and analysis of food compositions for screening compounds that inhibit lipid metabolism disorders like obesity. His work also encompasses characterization of microbial and dietary sphingolipids, development of analytical tools for global lipidomic analysis, and applications in clinical lipidomics and foodomics. He has received the Excellent Paper Award from the Faculty of Health Sciences at Hokkaido University and the TGBM Excellent Presentation Award from the Society of Triglyceride Biology and Medicine. Dr. Gowda collaborates with biologists, clinicians, and food chemists on lipid analysis and functional studies.