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News from the chromatography industry.
Biotage signs agreements with Reaxa
Biotage (Charlottesville, Virginia) has recently signed two agreements with Reaxa (Manchester, United Kingdom). Under the first agreement, Biotage and Reaxa will develop MicroEnCat, an encapsulated palladium catalyst range optimized for use in Biotage's microwave synthesizers.
The second agreement offers Reaxa's macroporous QuadraPure metal scavenging resins prepacked in Biotage FLASH purification cartridges.
MicroEnCat prefilled vials and QuadraPure FLASH cartridges are in development for 2006 launch.
First Norwegian Prize in Analytical Chemistry awarded
The Analytical Division of the Norwegian Chemical Society has awarded Tyge Greibrokk with the Norwegian Prize in Analytical Chemistry. Greibrokk has been a major contributor to the separation sciences and analytical chemistry in Norway and internationally.
Greibrokk worked actively with most separation techniques for three decades and has authored or co-authored close to 250 articles. He is presently the editor of Journal of Separation Science and a member of the editorial boards of Chromatographia, Journal of Chromatography A, and Journal of Biochemical and Biophysical Methods.
Thermo sponsors postdoctoral position for speciation analysis
Thermo Electron Corporation (Waltham, Massachusetts) recently announced their sponsorship of postdoctoral scientist Shona McSheehy. McSheehy is based at the Center of Excellence for Speciation Analysis Techniques at the University of Pau in France and is dedicated to the development of speciation methodologies and working practices for Thermo's speciation customers.
The center was established in 2004 as a result of a collaboration agreement between Thermo and the Biogeochemistry, Ultra Trace, and Isotopic Analysis group at the University of Pau to provide teaching and training to environmental, clinical, and petrochemical elemental analysts and to expand the use of elemental speciation techniques through the establishment of robust and routine laboratory procedures.
Heckmann to become president and CEO of Chiral Technologies
Chiral Technologies Inc. (West Chester, Pennsylvania) recently announced that Thomas B. Lewis would retire as president and CEO of the company in the second quarter of 2006.
President of Chiral Technologies Europe (Strasbourg, France) Dieter Heckmann has been chosen as Lewis' successor. When Lewis retires, Heckmann will hold the position of President and CEO of both Chiral and Chiral Europe.
Heckmann began his career in the chromatography field with Eurochrom/Knauer GmbH (Berlin, Germany) in 1988 and moved to UOP (Heidelberg, Germany) in the 1990s. Heckman joined Chiral Europe in 1997 and was promoted to president in 2001.
AI and GenAI Applications to Help Optimize Purification and Yield of Antibodies From Plasma
October 31st 2024Deriving antibodies from plasma products involves several steps, typically starting from the collection of plasma and ending with the purification of the desired antibodies. These are: plasma collection; plasma pooling; fractionation; antibody purification; concentration and formulation; quality control; and packaging and storage. This process results in a purified antibody product that can be used for therapeutic purposes, diagnostic tests, or research. Each step is critical to ensure the safety, efficacy, and quality of the final product. Applications of AI/GenAI in many of these steps can significantly help in the optimization of purification and yield of the desired antibodies. Some specific use-cases are: selecting and optimizing plasma units for optimized plasma pooling; GenAI solution for enterprise search on internal knowledge portal; analysing and optimizing production batch profitability, inventory, yields; monitoring production batch key performance indicators for outlier identification; monitoring production equipment to predict maintenance events; and reducing quality control laboratory testing turnaround time.
2024 EAS Awardees Showcase Innovative Research in Analytical Science
November 20th 2024Scientists from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, the University of Washington, and other leading institutions took the stage at the Eastern Analytical Symposium to accept awards and share insights into their research.
