Brings strong instrumentation expertise and deep knowledge of applications development to new role at company developing microfluidic chromatography
Nanostream, a provider of high-throughput microfluidic analytical systems to drug discovery and development companies, today announced that Steve Hobbs was promoted to applications development director.
With over ten years of experience developing analytical and biomedical instrumentation and applications, Hobbs will oversee Nanostream's applications development efforts.
In his new position, Hobbs will be responsible for leading the development of new analytical applications for Nanostream's premier micro parallel liquid chromatography ( PLC) product, the Veloce system.
Garnering feedback from customers, he will provide recommendations to product development for new enhancements and features to the Veloce system.
"By promoting Steve Hobbs, Nanostream is strengthening its focus on expanding the Veloce system to enable greater utility across a broad range of applications," said Stephen O'Connor, CEO, Nanostream.
"With a strong instrumentation background and a solid understanding of analytical applications, Steve is the ideal person to direct Nanostream's team of scientists in the exploration of new applications".
Nanostream products are currently optimised for small molecule compound applications that would most benefit from high-throughput.
The Veloce system provides a platform to accelerate the assessment of compound purity, stability, solubility and other physiochemical properties such as log P and CHI for a large number of compounds.
In addition to UV absorbance, the system is being designed to permit detection using various methods such as fluorescence and mass analysis. Hobbs joined Nanostream in 2000 as a senior scientist.
His instrumentation expertise spans across a variety of areas including liquid chromatography, UV-VIS-IR absorbance spectroscopies, atomic mass, absorbance and fluorescence spectroscopies, medical gas analysers and gas sensors.
Prior to joining Nanostream, Hobbs was a senior scientist at Malinckrodt (now Tyco) where he developed new technologies for their suite of gas analyser and tissue spectroscopy products.
Steve received a BA in chemistry from Berea College in 1988 and a PhD in analytical chemistry from the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill in 1993.
Nanostream will launch the Veloce system during LabAutomation in San Jose, CA on 3 February 2004.
