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Volume XIII, Issue 1, Spring 2004

 

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LETTER FROM THE PRESIDENT

Dear colleagues and friends: 

y the end of last year, I began my tenure as the single president of CASSS. I learned to appreciate the job completed by our past President, and for a short period of time the co-President, Bill Hancock. Thanks to him, CASSS is now a world renowned society with a large membership base and a healthy “economy.” It is also organizing a broad spectrum of very successful meetings and does a variety of other activities. For all his efforts, we owe Bill a vote of thanks.

I am writing this letter while flying home across the Atlantic, after attending the HPCE 2004 meeting in Salzburg. As always, this meeting was a big success bringing together scientists from all over the world. We spent five days in the magnificent Austrian city. The meeting registered 400 attendees from 35 countries. A large share of those were young people, students and post docs, which is a promising trend for the future of the separation science. Two parallel sessions concerned everything from today’s very popular fields of genomics, proteomics, and metabonomics, to topics such as biomarkers, microHPLC, microfluidics, detection concepts, new stationary phases and columns for HPLC and future challenges. The consensus was that this meeting has outlived its current name since it now covers a wide variety of separation techniques in addition to “plain” HPCE. CASSS was well represented at this meeting in both the scientific and social events and also contributed travel grants for students.

I would like to mention one more thing that all of us should appreciate: CASSS has a sibling! It was born in Europe at the end of the last year, and its name is European Separation Science Society or EuSSS. As stated in its mission, CASSS was the model for the creation of EuSSS. In contrast to us, the European society integrates members from numerous European states differing in history, culture, and language. This certainly adds to the complexity of its operations. However, I had a very nice discussion with the current President of EuSSS, Professor Hartmut Frank from Bayreuth University, Germany, and I felt that with his contagious enthusiasm he would lead this new organization to success. Unlike CASSS, it still has to find its own style. But its drive is strong. They found a powerful ally and helper in the Journal of Separation Science which became the communication flagship of their society. Certainly, we should seek all possible opportunities to cooperate with EuSSS.

Your President,

Frantisek Svec

Inside this issue:

• Letter from the President

• Letter from the Editor

• CASSS Update

• CASSS Welcomes New Sponsor! Target Discovery, Inc.
  
  MEETING ANNOUNCEMENTS

• CE in the Biotechnology and Pharmaceutical Industries

• New CASSS Sponsored Symposium:  First Symposium on the Practical Applications of Mass Spectrometry in the Biotechnology and Pharmaceutical Industries

• WCBP CMC Strategy Forum

• 18th International Symposium on MicroScale Bioseparations--MSB 2005 (formerly HPCE 2005)

• WCBP 2005

• The Ron & Bob Show: May Evening Discussion Group

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