Symposium report: the Waters Bioanalysis World Tour

Applied Pharmaceutical Analysis, Baltimore, MD, USA, 19 September 2010. As part of the Waters Corporation Bioanalysis World Tour [101] , an evening symposium was held at the Applied Pharmaceutical Analysis meeting in Baltimore (MD, USA) on 19 September 2010 [102,103] . The evening was chaired by Robert Plumb (Waters, MA, USA) and Christopher Evans (GlaxoSmithKline, PA, USA), and included three presentations from expert speakers. The talks covered diverse areas of bioanalysis unified by the theme of increasing sensitivity and data quality. Brian Hoffman (Advion, NY, USA) spoke about sample extraction plates for phospholipid depletion, Rand Jenkins (PPD Inc., VA, USA) discussed the use of 2D UPLC for enhancing the power and selectivity of UPLC-MS/MS bioanalysis, and Christopher Evans gave a presentation on increasing assay sensitivity for dried blood spot sample analysis, using a microfluidic chip-based column and a new mass spectrometer source. Following the presentations, all three speakers took to the stage again to respond to questions from the audience.