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analytica Conference 2010 medicine
New developments in analytical chemistry are giving rise to enormous new research fields in medicine and other disciplines. Leading scientists from the fields of chemistry, biochemistry, molecular biology, clinical chemistry and laboratory medicine will discuss the latest methods and developments in this sector at the analytica Conference from March 23 – 25, 2010. The largest analysis conference in Europe has been a gathering for the scientific community at analytica, the world\'s largest trade fair for analysis, laboratory technology and biotechnology, for years. analytica opens its gates in Munich from March 23 – 26.

Putting modern laboratory medicine to use for personalized medicine
Each person is an individual and has their own chemical \"composition\". All diseases are based on misdirected (bio)chemical reactions, or they result in them. If one is able to analyze all the molecules and their reaction processes more precisely, one can influence faulty processes better at the molecular level than with medications that have been developed using conventional methods. Exactly that, i.e. treating diseases in a more targeted manner, is the objective of personalized medicine. Professor Joachim Thiery, Director of the Institute for Laboratory Medicine, Clinical Chemistry and Molecular Diagnostics at Leipzig University and Deacon of the Medical Faculty, is an advocate of personalized medicine. In his plenary presentation on March 25 (10 a.m. in Room B11, Hall B1), he will introduce highly modern spectroscopic and molecular techniques that are being used at his institute in Leipzig to better diagnose and treat circulatory and tumor diseases. The institute\'s research work also focuses on the analysis and prevention of metabolic diseases, especially in newborns.

Bunsen Kirchhoff Award
The German Working Group for Applied Spectroscopy (DASp), which is part of the Working Group for Analytical Chemistry in the German Chemical Society (GDCh), will present this year\'s Bunsen Kirchhoff Award to Professor Janina Kneipp at the analytica Conference on March 25. The award, which includes a EUR 2,500 endowment, is presented to young scientists who work on new applications in the field of spectroscopy such as spectroscopy in the nano range and spectroscopy on biomolecules. This year\'s winner has degrees in biology and physics and currently works as a Junior Professor for Optical Spectroscopy/Process Analysis at the Institute for Chemistry at Humboldt University in Berlin and as head of the Working Group at Germany\'s Federal Institute for Materials Research and Testing in Berlin-Adlershof. At the analytica Conference, she will give a presentation about metal nanostructures as an efficient SERS substrate in bioanalysis and show how much progress has been made in this field. The presentation will take place in Room B41 alongside Hall B4 on March 25, 1010 (1:30 p.m.)

The Bunsen Kirchhoff Award ceremony and the presentation by this year\'s winner kick off the analytica Conference\'s session on the latest developments in atomic and molecular spectroscopy for chemical analysis under the direction of DASp Chairman Professor José A. Broekaert from Hamburg University. His lecture focuses on the ongoing development of microfluid systems, i.e. the miniaturization of several processes and the development of small devices. Examples include quicksilver analyzers, which can be used to analyze water specimens in the field, and the online analysis of blood sugar at the patient\'s bedside using infrared spectroscopy.

Point-of-care testing (POCT)
Point-of-care laboratory diagnostics will also be a highlight of this year\'s analytica Conference. On the first day of the conference (starting at 2 p.m. on March 23, Room B11, Hall B1), a symposium on the topic is being held under the direction of the Vice Chairman of the GDCh Working Group for Analytical Chemistry, Professor Günter Gauglitz from Tübingen University. Professor Peter B. Luppa from the Institute for Clinical Chemistry and Pathobiochemistry at TU Munich\'s \"Klinikum rechts der Isar\" will then give an update about this field. He will explain the various instrument categories and examine the state of development in the underlying technologies, quality-control techniques and the range of applications, from hospitals to in-home care. The range of applications will also include trends in healthcare and new technologies.

Professor Brian D. MacCraith from the Institute for Biomedical Diagnostics at Dublin City University, Ireland, will examine strategies that are being pursued to increase the use of POCT analyses in diagnostics. His presentation primarily deals with innovative biosensors and their integration into microfluid technology, i.e. lab-on-a-chip technology. He will focus on photonics (such as supercritical angle fluorescence, SAF) and nanotechnology (such as high-brightness nanoparticles). Presentations from Italy and Germany will take an in-depth look at these and other aspects of POCT applications.

The analytica Conference is being organized by \"Forum Analytik\", which consists of the German Chemical Society (GDCh), the Association for Biochemistry and Molecular Biology (GBM) and the German Association for Clinical Chemistry and Laboratory Medicine (DGKL).

Date of publication: 11/03/2010