Every Monday, we test totally new ideas in our lab, we call it Blue Sky Experiments. The intention is to create a new and unique conceptual proposition in pharmaceutical analytical chemistry; with “Oslo fingerprint” and with the next boss of our research group in “captains’ seat” with responsibility. Click on the article to read about a unique collaboration between a professor and postdoc...
Perspectives from Oslo
Dr. Chien-Yun Lee (see photo) from TUM is currently visiting our laboratory as part of a collaborative research project on electromembrane extraction (EME) of peptides. Freeze dried samples are extracted here in Oslo, and send back to Germany as frozen material for high-resolution mass spectrometry.
A few days ago, we submitted a manuscript for the journal Sustainable Chemistry and Pharmacy. In this research, we developed a liquid-phase microextraction (LPME) method, and combined this with LC-MS for determination of drugs of abuse in dried blood spots. We compared our new LPME method with the standard procedure for extraction used in forensic toxicology. Of course, we compared validation and performance data, such as recovery, accuracy, selectivity, and linearity, because we are trained and used to do it in this way. However, because the journal has focus on sustainability, we did a new and additional exercise this time; we calculated eco-scale penalty points according to the reference below.
Stig Pedersen-Bjergaard, November 15, 2018
In a few days, I will get 600 textbook pages to proof read together with my colleagues Bente Gammelgaard and Trine Grønhaug Halvorsen. We have prepared the second edition of our Wiley textbook “Pharmaceutical Analytical Chemistry” which will be available from February 2019.
Stig Pedersen-Bjergaard, November 15 2018
Justification of research is important, and in this perspective, it is fair to ask: Why we are doing fundamental research on microextraction technologies?