Waters ACQUITY QDa Mass Detector Receives Pittcon Today Excellence Gold Award
07 March 2017 - 9:26AM
Business Wire
Waters Corporation (NYSE:WAT) today received a Pittcon Today
Excellence Gold Award for its ACQUITY® QDa Mass Detector at the
Pittcon 2017 Conference and Expo.
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Accepting the Pittcon Today Excellence
Gold Award on behalf of Waters Corporation are (l. to r.) Steve
McDonough, John van Antwerp, Mike Harrington, Diane Diehl, and Tom
Wheat. (Photo: Business Wire)
“We are truly grateful to Pittcon Today magazine and to the
judges for this award. Since the introduction of the ACQUITY QDa
Mass Detector in 2013, the barriers that once prevented scientists
from having immediate access to mass data have come down," said Dr.
Mike Harrington, Senior Vice President, Global Markets, Waters
Corporation. “Whether used for reducing method development times,
improving the efficiency of compound purification workflows or even
for teaching the fundamentals of MS to undergraduates in academic
institutes, the ACQUITY QDa continues to broaden the accessibility
of mass data to our LC customers.”
The award winners were determined by a blue chip panel of
experts consisting of thought leaders across academia, industry and
trade media. Judges evaluated entries based on ingenuity,
creativity, implementation and outcomes with the principal
criterion being the projected impact the product will have on the
industry and the world.
About the Waters® ACQUITY QDa Mass
Detector
The ACQUITY QDa Detector is a small, easy-to-use and affordable
mass detector that brings high-quality mass spectral information to
chromatographic separations at the push of a button. Mass spectral
information greatly enhances chemical compound identification,
something that is very important to laboratories doing method
development, sample profiling, chemical synthesis and
purification.
Launched in 2013, the Waters ACQUITY QDa Mass Detector has
fundamentally changed the way chromatographers and other scientists
think of mass spectrometry and the confidence they have in their
data. For the first time, they have a mass detector that can gives
them instantaneous mass spectral data on every sample component; no
longer are they required to send out samples to a mass spectrometry
lab for nominal mass data.
In an article published by Merck1, the authors pointed to
utility of the QDa Detector for reaction monitoring, impurity
identification, trace genotoxic impurity quantitation and
biomolecule assays. They further state the recent development of
this type of detector has enabled the “rollout of this important
technology well beyond the initial user base of researchers in drug
metabolism and bioanalysis to the direct support of research areas
such as discovery chemistry, process chemistry, chemical
engineering, manufacturing and formulation sciences.”
The QDa Detector is covered by 30+ patents, was recognized as a
top innovation for 2013 by The Analytical Scientist magazine and
won a Pittcon Editors Silver Award in 2014.
About Waters Corporation
(www.waters.com)
Waters Corporation (NYSE:WAT) develops and manufactures advanced
analytical and material science technologies for laboratory
dependent organizations. For more than 50 years, the company has
pioneered a connected portfolio of separations science, laboratory
information management, mass spectrometry and thermal analysis
systems.
1. The Emergence of Low-Cost Compact Mass Spectrometry Detectors
for Chromatographic Analysis (TrAC Trends in Analytical
Chemistry)http://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0165993615301795
Waters and ACQUITY are trademarks of Waters Corporation.
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