Kate Jones

Agilent Technologies Inc. has announced that it has joined the NIIMBL, demonstrating Agilent’s commitment to supporting biopharmaceutical and biotherapeutics customer challenges through partnership and innovation using tools and workflows.

BioMed X has announced the start of its “Ukraine Refugee Funding Programme” that supports doctoral students and masters-level researchers in the life sciences who cannot continue their work at institutions in Ukraine.

We interviewed Lotte Schreuders, Noor Abdulhussain, and Mimi Den Uijl, the “Sisters in Science”, about challenging common stereotypes associated with studying chemistry, and their mission to put women front and centre in science.

The Column spoke to Andrea Hochegger, a postdoctoral researcher at the Graz University of Technology in Austria, about her work analyzing MOHs, and the importance of packaging to reduce the migration of MOH into foods.

This month we interview Victor U. Weiss, Assistant Professor at TU Wien, about his focus on the analysis and electrophoretic separation of nanoparticles from organic, inorganic, and biological sources, and the concept behind nES GEMMA.

This month we interview Hedvika Raabová, a graduate student at the Charles University, Faculty of Pharmacy in Hradec Kralove, Czech Republic, about her work using novel micro- and nanofibres during sample preparation, and the concept behind composite micro/nanofibre extractions.

The Column spoke to Nadin Boegelsack and Gwen O’Sullivan from Mount Royal University in Calgary, Canada, about their work creating a workflow for use in the two-dimensional gas chromatography (GC×GC) analysis of ignitable liquid residues in arson investigations.

This month we interview Jelle De Vos, Senior Postdoctoral Researcher at the Department of Chemical Engineering, Vrije Universiteit Brussel, Belgium, about his recent work to develop a chromatographic method to characterize nucleocapsid proteins from SARS-CoV-2, and the development of spatial three‑dimensional liquid chromatography (3D-LC) as a separation concept.

This month we interview Emanuela Gionfriddo, Assistant Professor of Chemistry at the Department of Chemistry and Biochemistry of the University of Toledo in Ohio, USA, about her work quantifying per- and polyfluoroalkyl (PFAS) in water using SPME–LC–MS/MS and the evolving field of sample preparation.

A panel discussion on the latest advances and future developments in sample preparation.

Aogu Furusho from the Graduate School of Pharmaceutical Sciences in Kyushu University, Fukuoka, Japan, spoke to us about his development of a highly selective three-dimensional chiral high performance liquid chromatography (HPLC) system for the determination of extraterrestrial amino acids in carbonaceous chondrites.

The Column spoke to Nelson Roberto Antoniosi Filho, a professor at the Chemistry Institute of the Federal University of Goiás (UFG), in Goiânia, Brazil, about his development of a gas chromatography–mass spectrometry (GC–MS) method for cancer diagnosis using cerumen.

The Column spoke to Richard Shannon from AstraZeneca about his work characterizing monoclonal antibodies (mAbs), why ion-exchange chromatography (IEC) is his technique of choice for analyzing mAbs, and offers his advice for anyone wanting to use the technique.

Pascal Cardinael and Valérie Agasse from the University of Rouen, in Mont‑Saint-Aignan, France, reveal the rationale behind miniaturization and the latest developments in miniaturized gas chromatography (GC).

A group of researchers has investigated the impact of combined sewer overflow (CSO) on pharmaceutical and illicit drug use in central London using liquid chromatography–high-resolution mass spectrometry (LC–HRMS).

The Column spoke to Jane Hill from Dartmouth College, USA, about her group’s development of a breath analysis method for tuberculosis diagnosis using multidimensional GC×GC–TOF-MS.