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Superior UV-Vis Performance and Functionality


With DLP technology, spectrometers for use in the food, pharmaceutical, oil/gas, and other emerging industries will be able to deliver lab performance levels in the factory and the field along with potential for significant system cost savings by replacing expensive array detectors with a single-element detector.


Silver Award: ACQUITY® QDa


detector Waters Corp. (Milford, MA; www.waters.com), no stranger to innovation, won Silver for its ACQUITY® QDa. The ACQUITY QDa detector adds a whole new dimension to separation science, and is the most progressive leap for- ward in chromatography detection since the first photodiode detectors were introduced decades ago (see Figure 2).


Available in standalone or PC-controlled models, Shimadzu’s compact, double beam UV-1800 Spectrophotometer provides outstanding performance and functionality at an incredible price.


Key features include:


Wide Photometric (Up to 4 Abs.) and Wavelength Scanning (190 to 1100nm) Ranges


Compact stand-alone design operated by sophisticated internal commands as well as cGLP compliant UVProbe software


USB memory ready for easy fi le transfer


Stable light source provides excellent baseline fl atness


Large sample compartment accommodates both the sample and reference beam


Variety of measurement modes available to meet both QA/QC and R&D applications; these include:


• Spectrum • Photometric • Kinetics


• Biomethod • Quantitation • Time Scan


Learn more. Call (800) 477-1227 or visit www.ssi.shimadzu.com/UV1800


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The QDa is novel in that it is a mass detector for chromatographers and is extremely easy to use. All they have to do is push a button—no tuning is required. The QDa detects more compounds than UV and eliminates the diffi- culty of implementing mass detection, which is very sensitive and specific. The advantages over UV detection are that it actually confirms the identity of peaks that you can see, and determines what they are and in what order.


When asked about the value of this product to the scientific community, Art Caputo, President of the Waters Division for Waters Corp., replied, “We foresaw a day when we could blend chromatography and mass spec- trometry technologies together in a way that gives every analytical scientist access to mass spectral data regardless of their previous ex- perience with mass spectrometry.”


He added, “On behalf of Waters employees worldwide, we are honored that the editors have recognized the new ACQUITY QDa detec- tor at this year’s Pittcon. This marks the fourth time in the last 10 years that the editors have recognized a new Waters technology, rein- forcing our innovation leadership role.”


Bronze Award: CESI 8000 System


for Biologics Characterization This year’s Bronze, awarded to AB SCIEX (Framingham, MA; www.absciex.com), was ac- cepted by Edna Betgovargez, Market Manager (see Figure 3). The new CESI 8000 System for


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Biologics Characterization is an innovative, high-performance separation-electrospray ion- ization system for mass spectrometry (MS). This new front-end CESI technology can be integrated with the well-established AB SCIEX TripleTOF® 5600+ mass spectrometry system into a seamless solution, to give biopharmaceuti- cal scientists the ability to advance therapeutics discovery, research, and development through the lifecycle of the product.


With a single approach that increases efficien- cy and productivity, the CESI 8000 provides orthogonal and/or superior results compared to dual-method LC/MS-based approaches. From a single digest and run, users of CESI-MS gain the following: 1) identity and purity infor- mation with 100% coverage in a peptide map; 2) heterogeneity information with ultrasensi- tive glycopeptide quantitation; and 3) stability information identifying deamidation, cycliza- tion, and oxidation—all highly important to biopharmaceutical scientists.


“On behalf of our entire team, we are pleased to receive the Pittcon Editors’ Bronze Award. We believe this product represents a real breakthrough in the separation and ioniza- tion of therapeutic biologics, establishing a new benchmark of improved system perfor- mance that allows CESI to be easily integrated into existing workflows in biopharmaceutical laboratories. This is innovation delivered to help save more lives and address the unmet needs of our customers in biopharma,” said Jeff Chapman, Director of the CE Business within SCIEX Separations, a part of AB SCIEX.


Award selection process The selection process can be a challenging


undertaking because of the diversity and large number of new products launched every year at Pittcon. Dr. Robert Stevenson, Editor of American Laboratory, commented, “For more than two decades, Pittcon has been the global forum to introduce products in separation science, primarily in chromatog- raphy. I recall thinking that the tag line on Pittcon—‘Pittsburgh Conference on Analytical Chemistry and Applied Spectroscopy’—was a misnomer. Spectroscopy was nearly dead. However, during the last three Pittcons, the tide has turned. Optical spectroscopy, includ- ing laser induced breakdown spectroscopy


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