Webinar Date/Time: Europe: Thursday, May 4, 2023, at 9 am BST | 10 am CEST North America: Thursday, May 4, 2023, at 11 am PDT | 2 pm EDT Asia: Friday, May 5, 2023, at 10:30am IST | 1 pm SST | 2 pm JST | 3 pm AEDT
UV-Vis technology is used to analyze, characterize, and quantify pharmaceutical and biological samples. Join Agilent to discuss the benefits of improving workflows in the pharmaceutical industry utilizing new UV-Vis spectrophotometer technology.
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Event Overview:
UV-Vis spectroscopy is a mature technology used to analyze, characterize, and quantify pharmaceutical and biological samples such as active pharmaceutical ingredients, DNA/RNA, and proteins for many decades. The use of UV-Vis has been limited by the workflow needed to make these measurements efficiently. The recent advances in UV-Vis spectroscopy focus on enhancing laboratory productivity, offering ease of use, and providing multiple accessories designed specifically for application needs. Pharmaceutical and biopharmaceutical materials have become more sophisticated in life science research across fields (such as cancer research, drug development, vaccines, and quality control in regulated environments). The technology used for the analysis should evolve, too. This webinar will highlight the benefit of the new Agilent Cary 3500 Flexible UV-Vis spectrophotometer and its capabilities in improving workflows in the pharmaceutical industry.
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Who Should Attend:
Speaker:
Geethika Weragoda
Application Scientist
Agilent Technologies
Australia Pty Ltd
Geethika Weragoda has a PhD in physical organic chemistry and photochemistry from the University of Cincinnati. Her PhD research focused on the study of reactive intermediates and their transformation using transient spectroscopy and theoretical calculations. During this time, she joined Hiroshima University in Japan as a research scholar to study laser spectroscopic techniques. After moving to Australia, she completed a postdoctoral fellowship at the CSIRO, developing photocatalytic pathways for C-H functionalization. Geethi is currently an applications scientist at Agilent Technologies.
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