Pharmaceutical Community Gathers in KC

Both national and interna­tional speakers were fea­tured at the Second North American Bioanalytical Forum (NABF) conducted September 29-­October 2, 2002 in Kansas City, MO. The meeting brought together bioanalytical chemists from the phar­maceutical and biotechnology indus­tries, contract research organizations, government laboratories and aca­demic settings in an atmosphere that encouraged the exchange of informa­tion and informal discussion on the latest scientific advances in drug bioanalysis and related areas.

Registrants filled the 130 slots available at the Forum: registration is restricted to foster and maximize scientific interchange while main­taining the informal nature of the meeting.

John F. Stobaugh, director of the Higuchi Biosciences Center for Bioanalytical Research and chair of the scientific organizing committee said, "We received great initial re­sponse to the scientific program of­fered at this meeting, and many re­quests that we do this again in two years." Stobaugh said that he liked bringing people to this area to allow them to see the thriving pharmaceu­tical and biomedical sciences re­sources - industrial and academic - in Kansas and Missouri.

Among the national speakers fea­tured at the scientific meeting were Robert C. Dunn, University of Kan­sas, Lawrence, KS: "Probing Bio­logical Function at the Single Mol­ecule Level"; Paul Vouros, North­eastern University, Boston, MA: "In­terfacing of Capillary HPLC to MS for Trace Level Analysis of Biopharmaceutical Compounds"; and David M. Lubman; The Univer­sity of Michigan, Ann Arbor, MI: "Screening for Cancer Protein Mark­ers Using 2-D Liquid Separations and Differential Mapping:"

International speakers included Karl-Siegfried Boos, Institute of Clinical Chemistry, University Hos­pital Grosshadern, Munich, Ger­many: "Therapeutic Blood Treat­ment Using Chromatographic Sor­bents"; Richard Venn, Pfizer Global Research & Development, Sand­wich, UK: "Beyond the Triple Quad: Where is Bioanalysis Going?" Jun Haginaka, Mukogawa Women's Uni­versity, Hyogo, Japan: "Molecularly Imprinted Restricted Access Media for the Assay of Drugs in Biological Fluids by HPLC"; and Henk Lingeman, Free University, Amsterdam, The Netherlands: "Au­tomated Sample Preparation for the Determination of Peptides and Pro­teins Using Liquid Chromatography and/or Capillary Electrophoresis." •