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Here is some of the most popular content posted on LCGC International this week.

The conference will return to its original home in Pittsburgh, after the inaugural event was held at the William Penn Hotel in the city in 1950.

Dan Spisak, Product Marketing Director at Agilent, discusses key advantages to the Infinity III LC series and its features – as well as the upgradeability of older systems.

John Speranza (General Manager, North America, LNI Swissgas) talks about the company's unique offerings that can provide your lab a competitive advantage.

In this video interview, Luo explains more about his laboratory group’s research, as well as provides an overview about what he talked about at Pittcon during his award symposium. And finally, Luo addresses some of the highlights of Pittcon and what winning the Pittcon Achievement Award means for his research.

In this video interview with Xiao Su, he dives deeper into the research that he and his team are conducting with redox-active polymers and the applicability of electrochemical approaches in separation science.

In this video interview from Pittcon, we ask Christopher Palmer about developing novel polymeric materials for microscale liquid phase separations, as well as some of the current trends and challenges he is observing in chromatography.

In our interview with Kate Perrault Uptmor, we asked her about the resources available for those interested in learning more about multidimensional chromatography, and current trends happening in separation science that are of particular note.

The conference theme this year focused on collaboration, connection, and cultivation of the next generation of researchers.

In this video interview from Pittcon, Elham "Elle" Akbari sat down with LCGC International to discuss her research, as well as the challenges of using liquid chromatography–mass spectrometry (LC–MS) and combustion ion chromatography (CIC) to characterize PFAS in environmental samples.

At Pittcon 2025, Long Luo of the University of Utah sat down with LCGC International to discuss his laboratory's tetrahedron approach to their research.

Several sessions at Pittcon 2025 highlighted the importance of mentoring the next generation of analytical scientists in chromatography and spectroscopy. But what concrete actions can truly make a difference?

LCGC International sat down with Su to discuss what winning the Young Investigators in Separation Science Award means for him and his research. Su also passed along some advice for separation scientists and young professionals in this space.

In this interview segment, we sat down with Chris Palmer of the University of Montana to discuss his talk, as well as the evolving role of electrokinetic chromatography in applications areas such as environmental analysis.

The company announced multiple new product releases including a series of compact gas chromatography systems, three UV-Vis spectrophotometers, a new line of triple quadrupole mass spectrometers, and more.

In this interview clip, Katelynn Perrault Uptmor, an assistant professor of chemistry at the College of William & Mary, in Williamsburg, Virginia, discusses winning the Emerging Leader in Chromatography Award and her upcoming talk tomorrow.

This morning at Pittcon, The Chromatography Forum of Delaware Valley (CFDV) held an award session for the late Terry Berger, who was this year’s recipient of the Del Nogare Award.

Cato T. Laurencin, MD, PhD, who is well-known as a scientist and entrepreneur with an extensive career in regenerative engineering, delivered the Wallace H. Coulter lecture yesterday. Here are some of the highlights from the talk.

Each year, LCGC International presents two awards at Pittcon to the winner of the Lifetime Achievement in Chromatography Award and the Emerging Leader in Chromatography Award. This year, Christopher Pohl is the recipient of the Lifetime Achievement Award and Katelynn Perrault Uptmor is the recipient of the Emerging Leader award. The award presentation, which will honor Pohl and Perrault Uptmor, will take place on Tuesday March 4th from 8:30–11:40 am.

Here, you’ll find an overview of some of the networking opportunities throughout the week that are available for attendees.

In this video interview, Emanuela Gionfriddo, Daniel Armstrong, and Nicholas Snow preview their talks at Pittcon, as well as give their opinions about what topics they hope to explore more at the conference.

Christopher A. Pohl and Katelynn A. Perrault Uptmor are the winners of the 18th annual LCGC Lifetime Achievement and Emerging Leader in Chromatography Awards, respectively. The LCGC Awards honor the work of talented separation scientists at different stages in their career (See Table I, accessible through the QR code at the end of the article). The award winners will be honored during an oral symposium at the Pittcon 2025 conference held March 1-5, in Boston, Massachusetts.

At the Recent Advances in Food Analysis (RAFA) conference in 2024, LCGC International sat down with Stefan van Leuwen of Wageningen Food Safety Research to discuss his research, which addresses emerging challenges in circular food production, focusing on the risks posed by pollutants when waste and by-products are repurposed in food systems.

At ISC 2024 in Liverpool, United Kingdom, LCGC International interviewed Kelly Zhang of Genentech about her work analyzing new drug modalities, such as mRNA, oligonucleotides, peptides, and cell and gene therapies.

Throughout 2024, the editors of LCGC International attended chromatography conferences across the globe. Below, you’ll find a sampling and overview of our conference coverage from the year.

This article highlights a curated selection of the most popular GC-related content, with a focus on the diverse applications of the technique, as featured in LCGC.

Here is some of the most popular content posted on LCGC International this week.

Ronald Piervincenzi, chief executive officer of the United States Pharmacoepia, focused on how collaboration and component quality can improve worldwide pharmaceutical production standards during a lecture at the Eastern Analytical Symposium (EAS) last month.

The 54th International Symposium on High Performance Liquid Phase Separations and Related Techniques (HPLC 2025) will be held from Sunday through Thursday, 15–19 June 2025, in Bruges, Belgium. LCGC International spoke to the Scientific Committee to find out what’s in store.

Recently, we talked with Mary Ellen McNally about her experiences at EAS 2024 and her expectations for sustainable laboratory practices in 2025.