Dear AAPS members–
As the sun is setting over my last days away from the office, I feel both refreshed and full of anticipation for our upcoming AAPS events this summer and fall! Excitement has been building at an incredible pace for next week's Harmonization of qPCR Workshop. Registration is running high, which is important because this meeting has a lot of discussion built into it! There is going to be a great deal of conversation to feel out this still-gray-area.
As someone who has spent so much time on standardization, comparability, and validation in her career, I must say I am particularly pleased that this event is attracting so much attention and so many participants. I think we have learned over the past year (again) how important it is for our most critical analytical tools to be sharp and meaningful across laboratories, samples, platforms, reagents, etc. While the urgent drive for quick and plentiful data seems to be eternally at odds with the "Step back, tweak, optimize, re-analyze, compare, add analysts, add samples, repeat" tedium that is often required for an analytical method to provide truly meaningful results, advancements in technology, reagents, and last-but-not-least data science, are bringing these seemingly disparate goals closer together in a powerful way, and the timing could not be better!
The July Land O' Lakes Bioanalytical Conference continues this line of thought and examines at an exciting depth how the pandemic response of our industry has driven and shaped advances in our laboratory practices, accelerated bioanalytical development, and fostered improvements in our space that are setting us up to work differently in the future. Of course, the meeting will also consider the regulatory interface that is so critical to applying scientific learnings to daily practice in a tightly regulated environment. We are excited to have more poster submissions for this event than last year, so please come prepared for some great conversations with our poster authors-I am already looking forward to them.
Although I am not active in mass spectrometry lab science anymore, I still like to follow the incredible and enabling technology leaps in this field and look forward to next week's eChalk Talk on Revolutionizing Protein Higher Order Structural Analysis with Flash Oxidation (Fox) Protein Footprinting. If your interests lie more on the ClinPharm side, you won't want to miss Clinical Pharmacology in Rare and Neglected Disease Drug Development: Applications to Global Health. As usual, we have your lunch breaks covered with some great interactive science discussions!
All this good content on the horizon may obscure a couple of important deadlines that are approaching! The AAPS Election is open now and you have until July 30 to cast your vote for critical leadership positions on the AAPS Board of Directors. We are once again fortunate to have an incredible slate of skilled leaders running for all positions. I appreciate the dedication of our members who volunteer to fill these important roles. Please vote and help us support strong leadership succession!
If you are still hoping to contribute to PharmSci 360, the deadline for Rapid Fire submissions is next week, June 15. Don't delay if you have something exciting in mind-all you need is a title, a 150-word description, and a few learning objectives.
You have until July 21 to get your late-breaking poster abstracts submitted. Summer days tend to fly by-do not let this deadline fly by you as well!
Once again, I am truly grateful for the active summer buzz that is vibrating through AAPS (and I am not talking about those cicadas, fellow D.C. people!). As I return to my summer reading during one more vacation day, I hope that our science will inspire you to look up and ahead.
Tina
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