Gun‐Britt Forsberg
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Gun-Britt Forsberg is a prominent analytical chemist and lipid researcher whose work has significantly advanced the field of lipidomics through innovative methodological development. She is best known for pioneering the BUME method, a groundbreaking chloroform-free approach to lipid extraction that has transformed how researchers isolate lipids from biological samples. Forsberg's most celebrated contribution is the development of the BUME extraction method, which she first introduced for blood plasma in 2012, garnering an impressive 328 citations. Recognizing the need for safer, more efficient alternatives to traditional chloroform-based protocols, she developed this butanol-methanol-based approach that dramatically simplifies and accelerates lipid isolation while remaining compatible with high-throughput automation. Building on this success, she extended the methodology to animal tissues in 2016, earning an additional 219 citations and demonstrating the broad versatility of her approach. Her work addresses a fundamental bottleneck in lipid research — the preanalytical extraction step — making it faster, safer, and scalable through 96-well plate compatibility and automated homogenization. With nearly 550 combined citations across just these two landmark publications, Forsberg's contributions have become essential reading for researchers in metabolomics, lipidomics, and biomedical sciences worldwide.
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