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[MSC] Newsletter –  July 2010  


> MS Method Development: AB SCIEX, Agilent & Thermo 

> Dietrich Volmer Returns to Germany

> Agilent Names CFO and Raises $750m 


>>> Owlstone/PNNL, SiChem/Isodetect, Agilent/fera and Roche/Captrotec


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Dear reader,

welcome to the 3rd issue of our free, monthly mass spectrometry newsletter! Several method development collaborations, a big credit financing from Agilent and more mid-summer news. Please, access them directly below!

Kind regards
Marcus Lippold, [iito] Business Intelligence

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Top News



Mass spec method development all over the place:

AB SCIEX and the ETH Zurich
team up to create new methods on AB SCIEX QTRAP
Agilent and Mississippi State University
testing Gulf seafood for oil contaminiation
Thermo following EPA strategy
in food analysis with new triple quad GC/MS/MS method

Dietrich Volmer Returns to Germany
leaving the MRC-HNR at Cambridge University to join
Saarland University as Professor for Analytical Chemistry

Agilent Names CFO and  Raises $750 Million
with Senior Notes maturing 2013 and 2020

Owlstone Nanotech and PNNL Receive R&D100 Award
for instrument using Field Asymmetric Ion Mobility Spectrometry (FAIMS)


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People

Persons on the move or recently added to the [MSC] Database

Heck, Albert J. R.
University of Utrecht
Head of Biomolecular Mass Spectrometrometry & Proteomics Group

Volmer, Dietrich
Saarland University
before MHR-HNR/University of Cambridge
Professor for Analytical Chemistry

Philips, Julien
Genedata AG
Product Manager

Rossi, Jennifer M.
BIOCIUS Life Sciences Inc.
Director of Marketing & Corporate Communications

Hicks, Leslie M.
Donald Danforth Plant Science Center
Director of Proteomics & Mass Spectrometry Facility


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Products & Events

Products & Events recently launched or added to the [MSC] Database

FC24 Food Commodities and Contaminants Database
Database of the British Food and Environment Research Agency (fera), recently made available online for free by Agilent for its customers.

1st Middle Eastern and Mediterranean Sea Region Countries
Mass Spectrometry Workshop 2010

The 1st Middle Eastern and Mediterranean Sea Region Countries Mass Spectrometry Workshop of the Israel Science Foundation will take place October 18–21, 2010 at the Weizmann Institute of Science in Rehovot, Israel.

DGKL 2010 Mannheim
7th Annual Meeting of the German Society for Clinical Chemistry and Laboratory Medicine (DGKL) will take place in Mannheim, Germany, from 29 September to 2 October 2010.

MASSA 2010 – 6th MS-Pharmaday Milano
MASSA 2010 – 6th MS-Pharmaday is an international conference focussed on all topics related to mass spectrometry with sessions devoted to pharma applications, and will take place in Milan, Italy, from 6 to 8 October 2010.

MZmine 2 software
Open access mass spectrometry analysis software.

MSIA technology (mass spectrometric immunoassay)
Technology of Intrinsic Bioprobes, part of recent collaboration with Thermo Fisher.



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Deals

Recent collaborations and financings added tp the [MSC] Database


Agilent Offers Free Access to FC24 food & contaminants database
under license from The British Food and Research Agency (fera)

Atlas Biolabs and Sequenom
Atlas to offer SNP-genotaping using Sequenom’s MassARRAY system

Thermo Supplies Mass Spec to Australia
New Victorian AgriBioCenter will be equipped with Thermo technology

Max Planck and Genedata
MPI-MP uses Refiner MS module of new Expressionist software Version 6

Roche and Caprotec
complete project to determine binding characteristics of drug candidates using CCMS technology

Isodetect and SiChem
to collaborate under BMWi grant on synthesis of isotope bearing compounds for BACTRAP system


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Organisations

Organisations recently established or added to the [MSC] Database


Okinawa Institute of Science and Technology (OIST)

Okinawa, Japan

Danforth Center, Proteomics & Mass Spectrometry Facility
St. Louis, MO, USA

Blue Sky Biotech Inc.
Worcester, MA, USA

University of Ulm, Service Center Mass Spectrometry
Ulm, Germany

AgriBio, the Centre for AgriBioscience (formerly Biosciences Research Centre Project) (Victoria, AUS)
Bundoora VIC, Australia

DSMS
Dansk Selskab for Massespektrometri / Danish Society for Mass Spectrometry

Denmark

AMS Biotechnology (AMSBIO)
Abingdon, GB



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