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LCGC, the leading resource for separation scientists, is proud to announce that Peter J. Schoenmakers and Emanuela Gionfriddo are the winners of the 16th annual LCGC Lifetime Achievement and Emerging Leader in Chromatography Awards, respectively. Schoenmakers and Gionfriddo will be honored in a symposium as part of the technical program at the Pittcon 2023 conference in March 2023.

Researchers from “The Peppermint Initiative” have published their first results using GC–IMS supporting its use in breath analysis and beginning the process of standardization of breath analysis methods.

Scitara (Massachusetts, USA) has announced a partnership with Agilent towards the integration of Scitara’s Scientific Integration Platform (SIP) with Agilent’s Software and Informatics Division portfolio of products.

After the morning break, there will be a session on hydrophilic interaction liquid chromatography (HILIC), with five speakers addressing different aspects of the technique. The session, which runs from 10:30 am to 12:15 pm, will be held in Ballroom D. David McCalley of the University of the West of England, well known as a HILC expert, will kick off the session with a talk on managing deleterious solute interactions with metals in HILIC—and, most likely, with his usual humor.

The 10 finalists for this year’s Csaba Horváth Young Scientist Award. who were chosen by the HPLC scientific committee from submitted abstracts, will give oral presentations throughout the week. The award will be presented during the closing ceremony on Thursday, June 23.

Erin Baker, an associate professor at North Carolina State University in Raleigh, North Carolina, is the 2022 recipient of the Georges Guiochon Faculty Fellowship. The Fellowship honors the memory of Georges Guiochon and recognizes his major contributions to high performance liquid chromatography (HPLC), including his interest in fostering the careers of young people in separation science.

Gioacchino Luca Losacco of Merck & Company in Rahway, New Jersey, is a finalist for the Csaba Horvath Young Scientist Award. Today at 5:15 pm, he will be presenting a paper entitled, “Automated Ion Exchange Chromatography Screening Combined with In Silico Multifactorial Simulation for Efficient Method Development and Purification of Biopharmaceutical Targets.” Co-authors include Michael B. Hicks, Jimmy DaSilva, Miraslava Potapenko, Fuh-Rong Tsay, Imad Haidar Ahmad, Ian Mangion, and Erik L. Regalado—all from Merck and Company—and Davy Guillarme of the University of Geneva, Switzerland. This talk is part of the Monday afternoon parallel session 4C, “Theory–I,” in Ballroom C.

Today at 3:45 pm, John W. Dolan of LC Resources in McMinnville, Oregon, will be presented with the 2022 Uwe D. Neue Award in Separation Science. He will then give a talk titled, “In the Fullness of Time: The DryLab Story.” His talk will be the first presentation in the Monday afternoon parallel session 4C, “Theory–I,” in Ballroom C.

Free lunchtime vendor technical workshops will be offered on Monday, Tuesday, and Wednesday from 12:45 to 1:45 pm, with two workshops occurring each day, in parallel sessions. The vendor technical workshops provide opportunities to get acquainted with the latest developments in equipment, media, and services available on the market. Symposium registrants who wish to participate in the free vendor technical workshops must pre-register early onsite at the booth of the workshop sponsor in the exhibit hall.