Professor Frank Pullen
Francis PullenProfessor of Pharmaceutical Analysis Room: Grenville 119 Email: frank.pullen@gre.ac.uk Tel: 020 8331 8225 |
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Profile
Professor Frank Pullen has 30 years experience in Organic mass spectrometry within the pharmaceutical industry, an in depth 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 also a member of the EPSRC grant review college.
Frank is currently the holder of the British Mass Spectrometry Lecturship; a position that is bestowed for a 1 year duration.
Professor Pullen became the Director of Research & Enterprise (Enterprise) in the School of Science in April 2010.
Publications
Soft or Hard ionisation? Investigation of metastable gas temperature effect on Direct Analysis in Real Time of Voriconazole. C Lapthorn, F Pullen; Eu J Mass Spectrom 15, 587-593 2009
Can Density Functional Theory(DFT) be used as an aid to a deeper understanding of MSMS fragmentation pathways? A Alex, S Harvey, T Parsons, F Pullen, P Wright Rapid Commun Mass Spectrom 23: 2619-2627 2009
Ionisation in the absence of high voltage using SFC-MS: a possible route to increased signal
M Thite, R Boughtflower, J Caldwell, S Richardson, L Hitzel, S Lane, P Holyoak, F Pullen, G J Langley Rapid Commun Mass Spectrom 22, 3673-3682 2008
Using calculated molecular descriptors to predict retention of sulphonamides in supercritical fluid chromatography. A Cazenave, R Boughtflower, J Caldwell, L Hitzel, S Lane, P Holyoak, F Pullen, G J Langley J Chrom. A. 1189, 254-265 2008
Gas chromatography/flame ionisation detection mass spectrometry for the detection of endogenous urine metabolites for metabonomic studies and its use as a complimentary tool to NMR. S Fancy, O Beckonert, G Darbon, W Yabsley, R Walley, D Baker, G Perkins, F Pullen, K Rumpel Rapid Commun Mass Spectrom. 20 2271-2280 2006
Probing noncovalent protein-ligand interactions of cGMP-dependant protein kinase using electrospray ionisation time of flight mass spectrometry. A Heck, M Pinkse, F Pullen, K Rumpel. J.Am.Soc. Mass Spectrom. 15 1392-1399 2004
Fragmentation pathways of sulphonamides under electrospray tandem mass spectrometric conditions. K Klagou, F Pullen, M Harrison, A Organ, A Firth, G J Langley Rapid Commun Mass Spectrom 17 2373-2379 2003
Approaches towards the automated interpretation and prediction of electrospray tandem mass spectrometry spectra of non peptidic combinatorial compounds. K Klagou F Pullen, M Harrison, A Organ, A Firth, G J Langley. Rapid Commun Mass Spectrom 17, 1163-1168, 2003