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L. Scott Ramos is the Chief Technical Officer at Infometrix, Inc, Seattle, where he has been employed for 37 years. He received a B.S. in Chemistry in 1971 from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, an M.S. in Environmental Science in 1972 at Washington State University and a Ph. D. in Chemistry in 1988 from the…
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Dr. Songi Han received her Doctoral Degree in Natural Sciences (Dr.rer.nat) from Aachen University of Technology (RWTH), Germany, in 2001. She pursued her postdoctoral studies at the Max-Planck Institute for Polymer Research, Mainz, Germany sponsored by the Max-Planck Fellowship and the University of California Berkeley sponsored by the Feodor Lynen Fellowship of the Alexander von…
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Dr. Jacob (Jake) Shelley, the Alan Paul Schulz Career Development Professor of Chemistry at Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute, earned his B.S. in Chemistry from Northern Arizona University in 2005. His research at NAU, under Prof. Diane Stearns, was focused on examining metal-DNA adducts with ICP-AES. He worked at Los Alamos National Laboratory for four summers on…
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Joseph A. Loo is Professor of Chemistry and Biochemistry, and Biological Chemistry (David Geffen School of Medicine at UCLA) at the University of California, Los Angeles. He is also a member of the UCLA/Department of Energy Institute for Genomics and Proteomics and the UCLA Molecular Biology Institute. He received his B.S. in chemistry from Clarkson…
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I remember my first time. I was the newest member of my dissertation research group. The others had been to one before and seemed to be laser focused getting ready for the event. I was going to be a co-author on a poster and I felt like I was moving in slow motion compared to…
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Thirty years ago, on October 1st 1990, the Human Genome Project (HGP) was officially launched. This project, conducted jointly by teams of American, European and Asian scientists, was one of the most ambitious enterprises ever envisioned to sequence and map out all the genes of members of our own species. It took almost 13 years to completely…
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Kim Huynh-Ba, a long-time member of the EAS Governing Board and 2013 EAS President, has been named a AAPS Fellow by the American Association of Pharmaceutical Scientists in recognition of her outstanding contributions to pharmaceutical stability and regulatory sciences and her commitment to education. Kim and the other 2020 Fellows will be honored at a…
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Viral testing has been in the spotlight since the very beginning of the Covid-19 epidemic. I cannot remember any other time in the past when so much attention has been given to analytical sciences, not just in general science journals but in the local, national and international press and media. As the pandemic progressed, we…
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The EAS Board of Directors is watching the progression and impact of COVID-19 closely. At this time, EAS still plans to hold our annual symposium scheduled in November 2020. We remain committed to providing our community with safe spaces in which to collaborate. We are following the guidance offered by the Centers for Disease Control…
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We are excited to announce our special lectures! Our keynote speaker, Dr. Eric D. Green, NIH, has agreed to speak on The Human Genome Project. Our plenary lecture will be delivered by this year’s winner of the EAS Award for Outstanding Achievements in the Fields of Analytical Chemistry, Prof. Susan Olesik, Ohio State University. To…
