Waters Corporation (Milford, Massachusetts) has donated a Synapt mass spectrometry system to the Fondation du Centre Hospitalier Universitaire de Sherbrooke (CHUS, Sherbrooke, Quebec, Canada).
Waters Corporation (Milford, Massachusetts) has donated a Synapt mass spectrometry system to the Fondation du Centre Hospitalier Universitaire de Sherbrooke (CHUS, Sherbrooke, Quebec, Canada). The $1.1 million (Canadian) gift is the result of a partnership between Waters and CHUS and is important for the creation of a center for clinical mass spectrometry at the hospital for screening, clinical diagnosis, and assessment of treatments for specific hereditary diseases. The hospital acquired a first mass spectrometer from Waters — a Quattro micro system — in 2005, which distinguished CHUS as the first university hospital in Quebec with MS capability in a clinical setting.
Inside the Laboratory: The Gionfriddo Group at the University at Buffalo
March 28th 2024In this edition of “Inside the Laboratory,” Emanuela Gionfriddo, PhD, an associate professor of chemistry at the University at Buffalo, discusses her group’s current research endeavors, including using solid-phase microextraction (SPME) coupled to liquid chromatography (LC) and gas chromatography (GC) to further understand the chemical relationship between environmental exposure and disease and elucidate micropollutants fate in the environment and biological systems.
Transferring Methods to Compact and Portable HPLC
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