G. A. Nagana Gowda

Northwest Metabolomics Research center

University of Washington, Seattle, USA

Research Assistant Professor

Email: ngowda@uw.edu

Qualifications

1999 Ph.D., Bangalore University, India, NMR spectroscopy

1985 M.Sc., University of Mysore, India, Analytical Chemistry

1983 B.Sc., University of Mysore, India, Physics, Chemistry and Mathematics

Publications (selected)

1. Prentice, Ross & Aragaki, Aaron & Zheng, Cheng & Manson, JoAnn & Tinker, Lesley & Schoeller, Dale & Novaes Ravelli, Michele & Raftery, Daniel & Gowda, Nagana & Navarro, Sandi & Huang, Ying & Mossavar-Rahmani, Yasmin & Wallace, Robert & Johnson, Karen & Lampe, Johanna & Neuhouser, Marian. (2025). Energy intake is associated with dietary macronutrient densities: inversely with protein and monounsaturated fat and positively with polyunsaturated fat and carbohydrate among postmenopausal females. The American Journal of Clinical Nutrition. 10.1016/j.ajcnut.2025.03.011.

2. Chiu, Abby & Gowda, Nagana & Zhu, Wentao & Arendt-Nielsen, Lars & Raftery, Daniel & Curatolo, Michele. (2024). Cerebrospinal Fluid Metabolomics of Pain in Patients with Spinal Muscle Atrophy. Pain Medicine. 10.1093/pm/pnae129.

3. Kuri Cruz, Abraham & Alves, Marina & Andresson, Thorkell & Bayless, Amanda & Bloodsworth, Kent & Bowden, John & Bullock, Kevin & Burnet, Meagan & Carnevale Neto, Fausto & Choy, Angelina & Clish, Clary & Couvillion, Sneha & Cumeras, Raquel & Dailey, Lucas & Dallmann, Guido & Davis, W. & Deik, Amy & Dickens, Alex & Djukovic, Danijel & Da Silva, Sandra. (2024). Multiplatform metabolomic interlaboratory study of a whole human stool candidate reference material from omnivore and vegan donors. Metabolomics. 20. 125. 10.1007/s11306-024-02185-0.

4. Gowda, Nagana & Pascua, Vadim & Hill, Lucas & Djukovic, Danijel & Wang, Dennis & Raftery, Daniel. (2024). Discovery of Hypoxanthine and Inosine as Robust Biomarkers for Predicting the Preanalytical Quality of Human Plasma and Serum for Metabolomics. Analytical chemistry. 96. 10.1021/acs.analchem.4c03719.

5. Navarro, Sandi & Williamson, Brian & Huang, Ying & Gowda, Nagana & Raftery, Daniel & Tinker, Lesley & Zheng, Cheng & Beresford, Shirley & Purcell, Hayley & Djukovic, Danijel & Gu, Haiwei & Strickler, Howard & Tabung, Fred & Prentice, Ross & Neuhouser, Marian & Lampe, Johanna. (2024). Metabolite Predictors of Breast and Colorectal Cancer Risk in the Women’s Health Initiative. Metabolites. 14. 463. 10.3390/metabo14080463.

6. Liu, Danni & Gowda, Nagana & Jiang, Zhongil & Alemdjrodo, Kangni & Zhang, Min & Zhang, Dabao & Raftery, Daniel. (2024). Modeling blood metabolite homeostatic levels reduces sample heterogeneity across cohorts. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America. 121. e2307430121. 10.1073/pnas.2307430121.

7. Gowda, Nagana & Lusk, John & Pascua, Vadim. (2023). Intracellular pyruvate–lactate–alanine cycling detected using real‐time nuclear magnetic resonance spectroscopy of live cells and isolated mitochondria. Magnetic Resonance in Chemistry. 62. 10.1002/mrc.5419.

8. Srinivasan, Sujatha & Austin, Michele & Fiedler, Tina & Strenk, Susan & Agnew, Kathy & Gowda, Nagana & Raftery, Daniel & Beamer, May & Achilles, Sharon & Wiesenfeld, Harold & Fredricks, David & Hillier, Sharon. (2023). Amygdalobacter indicium gen. nov., sp. nov., and Amygdalobacter nucleatus sp. nov., gen. nov.: novel bacteria from the family Oscillospiraceae isolated from the female genital tract. International Journal of Systematic and Evolutionary Microbiology. 73. 10.1099/ijsem.0.006017.

9. Gowda, Nagana & Pascua, Vadim & Killion, Camerin & Paranji, Rajan & Raftery, Daniel. (2023). Labile Metabolite Profiling in Human Blood Using Phosphorus NMR Spectroscopy. Analytical Chemistry. 95. 10.1021/acs.analchem.3c03040.

10. Gowda, Nagana & Pascua, Vadim & Raftery, Daniel. (2023). Anomalous Dynamics of Labile Metabolites in Cold Human Blood Detected Using 1H NMR Spectroscopy. Analytical chemistry. 95. 10.1021/acs.analchem.3c02478.

11. Prentice, Ross & Vasan, Sowmya & Tinker, Lesley & Neuhouser, Marian & Navarro, Sandi & Raftery, Daniel & Gowda, Nagana & Pettinger, Mary & Aragaki, Aaron & Lampe, Johanna & Huang, Ying & Horn, Linda & Manson, JoAnn & Wallace, Robert & Mossavar-Rahmani, Yasmin & Wactawski-Wende, Jean & Liu, Simin & Snetselaar, Linda & Howard, Barbara & Zheng, Cheng. (2023). Metabolomics Biomarkers for Fatty Acid Intake and Biomarker-Calibrated Fatty Acid Associations with Chronic Disease Risk in Postmenopausal Women1. The Journal of Nutrition. 153. 10.1016/j.tjnut.2023.05.003.

12. Prentice, Ross & Vasan, Sowmya & Tinker, Lesley & Neuhouser, Marian & Navarro, Sandi & Raftery, Daniel & Gowda, Nagana & Pettinger, Mary & Aragaki, Aaron & Lampe, Johanna & Huang, Ying & Horn, Linda & Manson, JoAnn & Wallace, Robert & Mossavar-Rahmani, Yasmin & Wactawski-Wende, Jean & Liu, Simin & Snetselaar, Linda & Howard, Barbara & Zheng, Cheng. (2023). Metabolomics-Based Biomarker for Dietary Fat and Associations with Chronic Disease Risk in Postmenopausal Women1. The Journal of Nutrition. 153. 10.1016/j.tjnut.2023.05.021.

13. Navarro, Sandi & Gowda, Nagana & Bettcher, Lisa & Pepin, Robert & Nguyen, Natalie & Ellenberger, Mathew & Zheng, Cheng & Tinker, Lesley & Prentice, Ross & Huang, Ying & Yang, Tao & Tabung, Fred & Chan, Queenie & Loo, Ruey & Liu, Simin & Wactawski-Wende, Jean & Lampe, Johanna & Neuhouser, Marian & Raftery, Daniel. (2023). Demographic, Health and Lifestyle Factors Associated with the Metabolome in Older Women. Metabolites. 13. 514. 10.3390/metabo13040514.

14. Gowda, Nagana & Abell, Lauren & Tian, Rong & Raftery, Daniel. (2023). Whole Body Distribution of Labile Coenzymes and Antioxidants in a Mouse Model as Visualized Using 1H NMR Spectroscopy. Analytical chemistry. 95. 10.1021/acs.analchem.3c00054.

15. Gowda, Nagana & Pascua, Vadim & Lusk, John & Hong, Natalie & Guo, Lin & Dong, Jiyang & Sweet, Ian & Raftery, Daniel. (2023). Monitoring Live Mitochondrial Metabolism in Real‐Time Using NMR Spectroscopy. Magnetic Resonance in Chemistry. 61. 10.1002/mrc.5341.

16. Gowda, Nagana & Raftery, Daniel. (2023). NMR Metabolomics Methods for Investigating Disease. Analytical Chemistry. 95. 83-99. 10.1021/acs.analchem.2c04606.

17. Gowda, Nagana & Pascua, Vadim & Raftery, Daniel. (2022). A New Limit for Blood Metabolite Analysis Using 1H NMR Spectroscopy. Journal of Magnetic Resonance Open. 12-13. 100082. 10.1016/j.jmro.2022.100082.

18. Gowda, Nagana & Pascua, Vadim & Carnevale Neto, Fausto & Raftery, Daniel. (2022). Hydrogen–Deuterium Addition and Exchange in N -Ethylmaleimide Reaction with Glutathione Detected by NMR Spectroscopy. ACS Omega. 7. 10.1021/acsomega.2c03482.

19. Xue, Yongquan & Shamp, Trisha & Gowda, Nagana & Crabtree, Michael & Bagchi, Debasis & Raftery, Daniel. (2022). A Combination of Nicotinamide and D-Ribose (RiaGev) Is Safe and Effective to Increase NAD+ Metabolome in Healthy Middle-Aged Adults: A Randomized, Triple-Blind, Placebo-Controlled, Cross-Over Pilot Clinical Trial. Nutrients 2022, 14, 2219. https://doi.org/10.3390/nu14112219. Nutrients. 14. 2219. 10.3390/nu14112219.

20. Zheng, Cheng & Pettinger, Mary & Gowda, Nagana & Lampe, Johanna & Raftery, Daniel & Tinker, Lesley & Huang, Ying & Navarro, Sandi & O'Brien, Diane & Snetselaar, Linda & Liu, Simin & Wallace, Robert & Neuhouser, Marian & Prentice, Ross. (2022). Biomarker-Calibrated Red and Combined Red and Processed Meat Intakes with Chronic Disease Risk in a Cohort of Postmenopausal Women. The Journal of Nutrition. 152. 10.1093/jn/nxac067.