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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.

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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.

Stefan van Leeuwen is a distinguished senior scientist at Wageningen Food Safety Research. Photo Credit: © Stefan van Leeuwen

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.

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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.

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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.

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At Analytica this year, an oral session titled “A Dream Comes True: Fantastic News from Analytical Chemistry” focused on cutting-edge techniques in separation science in Hall 5 of the International Congress Center Munich (ICM) International Congress Center Munich (ICM).

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Analytica 2024

A look at some of the highlights that separation scientists can look forward to at Analytica 2024.