Mass Spectrometry

Congratulations to EJMS Editor-in-Chief, Peter Derrick, on being awarded the Australian and New Zealand Society for Mass Spectrometry (ANZSMS) Medal; the Society’s highest award.

Big data represents both an opportunity and a challenge for scientists. The huge amount of data that can be generated by the latest scientific instruments could lead to important scientific discoveries, but only if scientists can efficiently process that data. A recent European project called Computis, has come up with a range of new tools for efficiently processing mass spectrometry imaging data.

A new mass spectrometry method for detecting the erythropoiesis-stimulating agent (ESA), peginesatide, in horse serum is described in an article published in EJMS—European Journal of Mass Spectrometry.

Applications are invited for the 2013 Gordon Kirkbright Bursary, a prestigious annual award that enables a promising student/non-tenured young scientist of any nation to attend a recognised scientific meeting or visit a place of learning.

At the conference dinner of the annual meeting of the British Mass Spectrometry Society, two awards were made to leading British mass spectrometrists.

Come and see us at the “Analytical Methods to Combat the Counterfeiting of Medicines” being held at GSK, Stevenage, UK on 16 June 2011.