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News Release from: Waters
Edited by the Manufacturingtalk Editorial
Team on 08 December 2004
Media day huge success
Editors and journalists with some of the analytical instrument industry's foremost periodicals attended a special informational forum held at Waters Corporation's headquarters on Monday, November 1st.
Editors and journalists with some of the analytical instrument industry's foremost periodicals attended a special informational forum held at Waters Corporation's headquarters on Monday, November 1st They came to get a behind-the-scenes look at how new technology -- from Ultra Performance LC(UPLC) to Laboratory Informatics is evolving to meet some of the laboratory's greatest challenges
This article was originally published on Manufacturingtalk on 11 Nov 2004 at 8.00am (UK)
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Dr Rohit Khanna, Vice President, Worldwide Marketing at Waters, said, "Media Day is a vehicle to communicate the challenges facing the laboratory and the role of technology and innovation in meeting them.
Customers have expressed how the technologies announced at this year's Pittsburgh Conference are changing their productivity.
So we decided to leverage that feedback with strategic media outlets and create a venue illustrating what these technologies mean to scientists and how they will impact the analytical laboratory." Waters Division executives, including President Art Caputo, discussed the company's strategic direction and industry practitioners discussed how technology has and will change the way they work.
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Professor Ian Wilson, recipient of numerous awards and author or co-author of 300 papers, is a Principal Scientist at AstraZeneca Pharmaceuticals in Macclesfield, England.
He enthusiastically discussed the resolution advantages of UPLC for metabonomics, or the study of biomarkers for disease.
In his presentation, Professor Wilson showed data illustrating how UPLC can detect as many as 10,000 potential endogenous biomarker ions in rat urine as compared to only 2,000 by conventional HPLC.
He predicts that separation-based metabonomics is going to play an important role in the future of drug discovery because it is fast, efficient and very cost-effective, and this type of analysis is potentially widely available.
Guy Talbot, from G R Talbot Consulting, LLC, located in Edgewater, New Jersey, presented a systems strategy of a "Paperless Laboratory" that will change the way labs compile, store and share data.
According to Talbot, "Compliance issues are estimated to take up to 70% of the time spent in a regulatory lab.
Very experienced, highly skilled scientists are more involved in moving paper around than actually conducting science.
And as the science becomes more and more complicated, an enterprise-wide solution that allows resources to be used effectively is the direction the industry needs to pursue." Talbot's firm specializes in assisting pharmaceutical companies develop an IT strategy to support improved laboratory processes.
Afternoon facilities tours and laboratory demos concluded the day's activities.
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