Inside the Laboratory: Grinias Research Lab at Rowan University, Part I – Jim Grinias Interview
In this series from LCGC, we go on location to the Grinias Research Lab at Rowan University and speak to Professor James Grinias about his background, teaching philosophy, students, and lab equipment.
Welcome to this installment of "In the Lab," in which the LCGC and Spectroscopy editorial team leaves their New Jersey office and ventures out in the field to area colleges and universities known for strong separation science programs, with the goal of giving our audience a window into the next generation of analytical chemists.
First on that list is Rowan University in Glassboro, New Jersey, home to the Grinias Research Lab headed by James Grinias, a professor in the department of Chemistry & Biochemistry. Jim’s work has frequently been featured in the publications under the LCGC International umbrella, and he is also familiar to our online audience as an interview guest in conference coverage.
The Grinias Research Lab has already helped supply portable liquid chromatography (LC) and mass spectrometry (MS) systems to the pharmaceutical industry, and according to a recent release from Rowan, has been awarded nearly $357,000 by the United States Army to develop similarly small-scale LC–MS instrumentation for the purpose of detecting signs of post-traumatic stress disorder (PTSD) in the blood of service members.
In the near future, LCGC will be releasing further video interviews with Grinias’ students as well as footage from inside the lab, and even instrumentation demonstrations. Please see below for more from Dr. Grinias, as our new series begins.
Check back soon for more from Rowan University and other analytical chemistry labs across higher education!
LC–MS/MS-Based System Used to Profile Ceramide Reactions to Diseases
April 26th 2024Scientists from the University of Córdoba in Córdoba, Spain recently used liquid chromatography–tandem mass spectrometry (LC–MS/MS) to comprehensively profile human ceramides to determine their reactions to diseases.
High-Throughput 4D TIMS Method Accelerates Lipidomics Analysis
April 25th 2024Ultrahigh-pressure liquid chromatography coupled to high-resolution mass spectrometry (UHPLC-HRMS) had been previously proposed for untargeted lipidomics analysis, but this updated approach was reported by the authors to reduce run time to 4 min.
Traditional Chinese Medicine’s Effects on Liver Cancer Measured Using New UHPLC–QTOF-MS System
April 22nd 2024Scientists from Anhui University of Chinese Medicine in Hefei, China recently investigated the mechanisms behind what makes huachansu tablets, a type of traditional Chinese medicine (TCM), effective against liver cancer.
