HPLC2008 took place between Sunday,
May 11th to Friday, May 16th at the Marriott
Waterfront Hotel, Baltimore, USA under the
Co-Chairmanship of Profs, Georges Guiochon and
Steve Jacobsen. With in excess of 900 delegates
registered, this premier symposium series in
separation science remains buoyant despite the
general adverse economic climate and the less
than favourable conditions being experienced by
the pharmaceutical industry. Delegates attending
peaked in the middle days while the exhibition
was running but, at the opening plenary session
over 400 delegates had arrived and even at the
closing session on Friday morning approaching
250 hardy souls had held out to the very end.
420 posters were presented, just a slight drop
on the previous year’s meeting in Belgium.