CHICAGO--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Mar. 6, 2017--
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
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Waters Corporation
Brian Murphy, 508-482-2614
Public Relations
brian_j_murphy@waters.com