Peaks of Interest
Liquid chromatography is a crucial process used in making a quickly expanding range of biotech products such as human insulin and cancer-fighting drugs. Located in one of the newer buildings at Pease International Tradeport (Portsmouth, New Hampshire), Euroflow represents a new breed of biotech-related companies that have emerged recently throughout the region.
New tenant at Pease
Liquid chromatography is a crucial process used in making a quickly expanding range of biotech products such as human insulin and cancer-fighting drugs. Located in one of the newer buildings at Pease International Tradeport (Portsmouth, New Hampshire), Euroflow represents a new breed of biotech-related companies that have emerged recently throughout the region.
Euroflow was founded 10 years ago and is based in Stroud, U.K. The company develops and produces specialized LC machines and systems, and has taken an aggessive plunge into the U.S. and Canadian marketplaces by opening its first U.S. office in Portsmouth, New Hampshire.
HPLC and LC-MS Plays Major Role in Preclinical Development Market
The purpose of the company's technology center is to bring the technical capabilities of the company's U.K. headquarters closer to biopharmaceutical customers and distributors in the U.S. and Canada. The 4100 square-foot facility houses a modern laboratory as well as conference, classroom, and office spaces to enhance hands-on demonstration of the company's products. This is made possible by the fact that both laboratory and classroom-style training can be used to train customers in using the equipment.
Agilent CEO to retire in February
Agilent's Palo Alto, California-based firm announces chairman, president, and CEO Ned Barnholt will retire at the end of this month. Barnholt served as CEO for the past six years and will be succeeded by William Sullivan, who currently serves as excecutive vice president and COO. Sullivan also oversees the company's electronic products and solutions group.
James Cullen, who has served on Agilent's board of directors since 2000, will take over as nonexecutive chariman upon Barnholt's departure.
Waters Connections® University 2005 course catalog available
Waters Corp. (Millford, Massachusetts) recently announced the publication of its Waters Connections University Customer Education Course Catalog for 2005. Connections University is offering comprehensive courses for LC and MS technologies that cover five major areas including laboratory informatics, instrument operation and maintenance, MS technologies, compliance, and general chromatography.
The catalog is available in eight regional versions: Benelux, France, Germany, Spain, Ireland, U.K., Scandanavia (Denmark, Finland, Sweden, Norway), and North America (U.S. and Canada).
Connections University courses are delivered by experienced, certified instructors and are available at worldwide campuses in Milford, Massachusetts, and at European campuses in St. Quentin en Yvelines, France; Almere, Netherlands; Manchester, U.K.; or at multiple regional locations around the world. The university also offers on-site training and distance learning. For more information on Waters Connections University, please visit www.waters.com/cucatalog.
2005 Hall-of-Fame Awardee
Gary Hatch has been awarded the 2005 Activated Carbon Hall-of-Fame award. He will provide a plenary lecture March 23, 2005 in Orlando, Florida at the 15th International Activated Carbon Conference and Course program.
Hatch is director of R&D for Pentair/Plymouth Products, Sheboygan, Wisconsin, where he is responsible for new product R&D for residential and commercial POU/POE markets. He received the Ph.D. degree from Kansas State University (Manhattan, Kansas) in analytical-inorganic chemistry and has been actively involved in water treatment for the past 30 years.
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.
Inside the Laboratory: The Richardson Group at the University of South Carolina
November 20th 2024In this edition of “Inside the Laboratory,” Susan Richardson of the University of South Carolina discusses her laboratory’s work with using electron ionization and chemical ionization with gas chromatography–mass spectrometry (GC–MS) to detect DBPs in complex environmental matrices, and how her work advances environmental analysis.
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.
Infographic: Be confidently audit ready, at any time and reduce failures in pharma QC testing
November 20th 2024Discover how you can simplify the audit preparation process with data integrity dashboards that provide transparency to key actions, and seamlessly track long-term trends and patterns, helping to prevent system suitability failures before they occur with waters_connect Data Intelligence software.
Critical Role of Oligonucleotides in Drug Development Highlighted at EAS Session
November 19th 2024A Monday session at the Eastern Analytical Symposium, sponsored by the Chinese American Chromatography Association, explored key challenges and solutions for achieving more sensitive oligonucleotide analysis.
