BASi CRO News - May 2010
AAPS National Biotech Conference
Please join us at AAPS National Biotechnology Conference in San Francisco (Hilton San Francisco Union Square) during May 17 – 19. Visit BASi Booth #61 and chat with Don Hawker and Dr. Jack Polidoro who will be there to discuss the range of contract services BASi offers to help you speed your compound to market including preclinical, toxicology, bioanalytical, method development, large molecule bioanalysis and pharmaceutical analysis, as well as specialized instrumentation for in vivo sampling. More details on all of these services can be found online. If you would like to arrange a meeting with Don or Jack outside of the exhibition, please contact Don Hawker and Dr. Jack Polidoro.
AAPS Poster Presentations
Also, scientists from BASi’s Northwest Laboratory (McMinnville, OR) will present two posters on Monday, May 17, 2010.
Development of a Fast, Green LC-MS Method for the Quantification of Oxycodone, Oxymorphone and Noroxycodone Using Innovative HPLC Column Technology
Poster #M1008
Grand Ballroom AB
11:00 am-06:00 pm
Tom Fleischmann (presenting) Vance Cooper, Lori Payne
Matrix effects in Sample Analysis: Matrix Dependent Method Modification
Poster #M1016
Grand Ballroom AB
11:00 am-06:00 pm
Zahuindanda DeForrest (presenting), Michael Alexander, Melissa Kiser, Scott McConkie, Lori Payne, Tom Fleischmann
After May 19th, the posters can be viewed online under heading: Bioanalytical Chemistry
Please stop-by the exhibit or posters to chat with Jack, Don, Tom or Zahuindanda and discuss how BASi services could help you with your bioanalytical, toxicology or other needs.
ASMS Conference
BASi scientists Don Gray and Rachel Sun will be attending the 58th ASMS Conference on Mass Spectrometry and Allied Topics, May 23-27, 2010 in Salt Lake City. Rachel will also be presenting a poster on Tuesday, May 25th titled.
LC/MS/MS method development of clonidine in pig tissue samples
Abstract # 3076
After May 27th, the poster can be viewed online under heading: Bioanalytical Chemistry
If you would like to meet with Rachel or Don outside of the poster presentation time, please contact by email: Don Gray or Rachel Sun
Neil Doleman joins UK/EU Business Development team
Neil Doleman has moved from a Bioanalytical PI to the Business Development team. Neil has been with BASi-UK for more than six years as a Senior Scientist. He has been involved with Principal Investigator/Project management duties for pre-clinical and clinical studies. One of his more recent projects has involved drug determination from Dried Blood Spots. Neil has also supported Business Development activities working toward this new role. His sales territory is Northern Europe; Scandinavia, Benelux, Germany, Switzerland, and Austria.
You can contact Nei Doleman via email.
Adam Myers adds Business Development to his Pharmaceutical Analysis duties
Beyond his Senior Scientist duties of method validations, GLP dosing solution analysis and GMP release and stability testing, Adam is now spending about half time selling and supporting the BASi Pharmaceutical Analysis services. With his over 2 ½ years of experience, he understands the needs of the customer. Evidence of this is he recently initiated the purchase and validation of equipment for particulate matter analysis. (See note below and links) You can contact Adam Myers via email.
Determination of Particulate Matter Now Available from Pharmaceutical Analysis
The Pharmaceutical Analysis department has now completed the validation of instrumentation to conduct testing for particulate matter in injections. Particulate matter in injections and parenteral infusions consists of mobile undissolved particles, other than gas bubbles, unintentionally present in the solutions. Particles present in these solutions can lead to recalls. more >>
Successful Culex® In Vivo Sampling Workshops
The BASi In Vivo Sampling team of Candace Rohde-Johnson (Business Development Manager) and Natasha Nikolaidis (Product Manager) have recently completed four (4) successful Culex workshops; one each in Boston, Barcelona, San Diego and San Francisco. All of the one day workshops were filled to capacity. Each consisted of a review and scope of current invivo sampling technology which was followed by demonstrations of microsurgerical techniques (e.g., mouse, femoral artery, portal or bile duct cannulations) and products (Culex and Culex-ABC, automated blood sampling and dosing (including infusion with Empis®) and large volume sample collection. For more information about Culex In Vivo Sampling visit www.Culex.net.
There is also a Culex Users Group meeting scheduled for late July in Chicago.
If you would like more information on future, general In Vivo Sampling workshops, the Users Group meeting or would like to schedule a specific, in-house workshop tuned to your needs, please contact Candace.
What People are saying about BASi
- Toxicology consultant Steve Snyder, in his recent "Preclinical Outsourcing” column in Contract Pharma magazine presented BASi's toxicology group with a "Toxy" award (think "Emmys") for being a CRO that “fly[s] under the radar” by not receiving too much attention, but still delivering solid work.”
- A recent auditor complemented BASi' s management because systems were not changed as previous managers left and new managers came. She is very concerned that many companies are doing just that and is not helping at all. As with another recent auditor, she commented about her concern of how other companies are reducing or eliminating their quality groups to cope with the economic situation. “Not here and that is good” was her final statement. She made the same remarks about electronic documents; apparently we are way ahead of some “big CROs” on that.
The following is a Readers Digest version of a report written by a BASi manager following an exit audit interview with a client’s consultant.
- Bob couldn’t say enough about Sue at EVV (Evansville facility). Sue saved the day by (supplying) WLAF with white blood cell lysate. She “stepped up to the plate”
- Bob was impressed with the UK facility. He was very happy to learn of that site as he was tasked to find a European lab and really didn’t want to transfer such complicated methods to another company/lab. He was considering lab in France when he learned about BASi UK
- Bob was impressed with Nina in the UK. (Company’s) work is in good hands with Nina.
- Bob liked the fact that all BASi Bioanalytical facilities were using the same IT programs and SOPs. He thought that was fantastic and made it easy for him to recommend the UK lab to (company).
- Bob was satisfied with the science and the especially the design of experiments for the method development work. It was logical and he could follow the flow. The results were tight. So he knew that a path forward would be eventually found.
- Bob likes Curt. He is very thorough and checklist oriented – Bob takes comfort in that.
- BASi has a reputation of being forward thinking.
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