Biography
Steven Soldin is a Senior scientist at NIH. He is also an Adjunct Full Professor at Georgetown University in the Department of Endocrinology and Metabolism. He has published 271 papers. His research interests focus on the role of specificity in improving patient diagnosis and treatment. He recently showed a statistically significant diurnal fluctuation in steroid concentrations for all steroids tested except progesterone. The extent of this diurnal variation is so large that it necessitates development of time dependent reference intervals. The role of mass spectrometry in improving patient diagnoses in hypothyroidism (5.7 % of population) and adrenal disease (7.4% of population) has been demonstrated.
Research Interest
Tandem mass spectrometry, Analytical science
Biography
Ragu Ramanathan is a Director of Global Small Molecule Bioanalysis in the Global Bioanalytical Laboratories at Pfizer Inc. (CT, USA). Ragu earned his BS degree in Chemistry from the University of Southern Mississippi (MS, USA) (1988) and a PhD degree in Analytical/Physical Chemistry from the University of Florida (FL, USA) (1994). Ragu’s postdoctoral research was performed at Washington University (MO, USA) (1995-1997). Through a research grant from the NIH, at Washington University Mass Spectrometry resources, Ragu expanded his training in mass spectrometry through application to breast cancer research and protein characterization. From this training, Ragu’s interest ventured into application of mass spectrometry at several pharmaceutical research and contract research organizations, including Analytical Bio-Chemistry Laboratories (MO, USA), Schering-Plough Research Institute (now Merck; NJ, USA), Warner-Lambert (now Pfizer; MI, USA), Bristol-Myers Squibb (NJ, USA), QPS (DE, USA), and Pfizer, Inc. (CT, USA)
Research Interest
Mass Spectrometry, Chromatography, Drug Metabolism , Pharmacokinetics
Biography
Eduard Rogatsky serves as the Editor-in-Chief for the Journal of Chromatography and Separation Techniques (OMICS publishing group). During the last 10 years (from 2005) he has published over 30 scientific papers in per-reviewed journals (mostly as the first author) and has presented over 50 posters and lectures. Overall, he has made more than a hundred scientific presentations and publications. Eduard completed his M.Sc. in physical chemistry at Belarus State University (former USSR) in 1990. He completed his PhD in bioanalytical chemistry (Bar-Ilan University, Israel) in 1998. At the end of 1999, he started his post-doctorate at Albert Einstein College of Medicine and became a faculty member since 2001 and was a mass spectrometry director at the Biomarker Analytical Resource Core. From October 2015 Dr. Rogatsky is a supervisor of the Chemical Threat Laboratory in the Division of Environmental Health Sciences at Wadsworth Center, Albany NY, USA and continue to be an Adjunct Professor at Albert Einstein College of Medicine.
Research Interest
Design and development of ultra sensitive LC/MS, analytical assay of clinical biomarker and metabolomics, analysis of peptide hormone and protein, design and development of multi-dimentional chromatography platform.