Dr Neil Lewis, technical director for Malvern Instruments, will lead a two-hour interactive conferee networking session at Pittcon 2009 and is seeking input from interested parties.
The topic is one that is of growing interest in the biopharmaceutical arena for both drug discovery and quality assurance applications - 'Physical characterisation of complex biopharmaceutical products using photon correlation spectroscopy (dynamic light scattering) - probes for protein aggregation and lipid vesicle dynamics'.
Anyone wishing to raise a question and receive a summary of the session post-Pittcon, must complete a brief survey.
Organised by Malvern Instruments as part of the Conferee Networking programme, this session takes place on Monday 9 March from 13:30 to 15:30.
Dr Lewis will begin with a short introduction to the topic and will then open the discussion to participants for comments and thoughts.
Photon correlation spectroscopy can be used to determine size, zeta potential and molecular weight distribution measurements on dispersions of particles with hydrodynamic radii ranging from approximately 0.3nm to three microns or more.
This capability has resulted in significant interest in its use for measuring biological samples such as proteins, liposomes and their complexes and aggregates, as well as vaccines and viruses.
