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Professor Robert Kennedy Winner of the 2019
Chromatographic Society Martin Medal
Each September The Chromatographic Society executive committee convenes to discuss the award of their Jubilee and Martin medals for the following year. The Martin Medal is named after Professor A.J.P. Martin who together with Richard Synge received the Noble Prize chemistry in 1952 for their seminal work on partition chromatography. The ‘Martin Medal’ is the highest honour the Society confers. Indeed, it is recognised by the international chromatography community as being one of highest accolades that can be bestowed upon a chromatographer and is awarded to scientists who have made outstanding contributions to the advancement of separation science.
The nominations for the Martin Medal category for 2019 once again were extremely strong and included a number of highly prominent separation scientists. The Chromatographic Society is now pleased to announce that Professor Robert Kennedy from the University of Michigan will be awarded the Martin Medal for 2019.
The award has been made in recognition of his “outstanding contribution to the development of innovative techniques in miniaturisation of chemical separations and microfluidics for highly sensitive analysis of biological compounds”.
Professor Robert Kennedy
Robert Kennedy developed an interest in analytical chemistry and chemical separations while earning his BS degree in chemistry at the University of Florida. He became fascinated with the ability of GC to separate subtly different molecules while he was performing undergraduate research in organic chemistry. His analytical classes taught by Professor John Dorsey further enhanced this
interest. He went on to earn a PhD with James Jorgenson at University of North Carolina where is work focused on using open tubular LC to analyse single cells. After a post-doc with Mark Wightman, he started his own research program at University of Florida before moving to University of Michigan as the Hobart H. Willard Professor of Chemistry in 2002. His research has combined his lifelong interest in biology with chemical analysis and separations. A theme of his group has been development
of miniaturised, high-speed separations for sensing, detection of non- covalent complexes, and screening. His group has developed capillary separation methods for monitoring neurotransmitters in vivo. These methods have been used for studying changes in neurotransmitter concentrations associated with behaviour and diseases. His group has also developed microfluidic electrophoresis devices for monitoring insulin secretion from pancreatic �-cells. These methods are coupled with LC-MS metabolomics to understand the biochemical mechanism of insulin secretion and perturbations associated with diabetes. His group is also researching use of rapid electrophoretic and mass spectrometric assays for high-throughput screening. His work has been recognised by several awards including ACS Award in Chromatography, McKnight Award for Technical Innovations in Neuroscience, EAS Separation Science Award, Golay Award for Achievements in Chromatography, The Ralph Adams Award in Bioanalytical Chemistry and several teaching awards. He has held several service posts and is presently Associate Editor of Analytical Chemistry and Chair of the Chemistry Department at University of Michigan.
Robert has been a leading separation science researcher for a number of years with many of his students and collaborators progressing into positions of seniority. It is with great pleasure The Chromatographic Society awards the 2019 Martin Medal to Professor Robert Kennedy this well-deserved honour will be presented to him at HPLC 2019 in Milan.
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