CSSC Meeting Last Night

I attended this CSSC meeting last night and presented an after-dinner talk on hplc method development to about 30 members.  This was probably my 5th talk for this organization starting with the first CCC symposium in 1983 at Yale organized by Csaba Horvath, two NECC seminar in the 90's and a symposium talk in 2003 at Mohegan Sun, etc.

Most of the attendees were from local organizations (UConn, BMS, Pfizer, Southern, Agilent, Trinity and other companies).  The dinner was free and sponsored by Agilent Technologies which had a booth displayed there.  It was good to meeting with Ben Twombly, an ex-colleague from Perkin-Elmer. I was presented with a nice plaque from CSSC which was quite unexpected.

I would like to thank Kim Johnson for hosting the meeting, Prof. James Kearns of Southern CT for presenting the plaque and Thomas Meaninkaitis for the invitation and the meeting organization.  I spoke about the CSSC HPLC training course that we were planning in early September and there appeared to be much interests with many questions re the content and cost.

It is good to be back at CSSC, our local separation science group in CT....

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Abstract:

HPLC method development is an arduous and time-consuming process generally conducted by experienced separation scientists. This seminar describes short cuts and tricks-of-the-trade to the separation scientist in rapid development of (u)HPLC methods (potency and ICH-compliant stability-indicating assays) using a 3-pronged method template approach and a universal generic gradient methodology. Method development case studies in pharmaceutical development including those for quality control of drug candidates with multiple chiral centers are used to illustrate these approaches.

1.    M. W. Dong and K. Zhang, UHPLC in method development, Trend in Anal. Chem., 63, 21-30, 2014.

2.    M.W. Dong, A Three-Pronged Template Approach for Rapid HPLC Method Development. LCGC North Am. 31(8), 612-621, 2013.