Sfc Chromatographers from Around the World to Convene in Zurich, Switzerland

The Green Chemistry Group, a non-profit organization with an international membership of chromatographers dedicated to educating chemists and promoting the benefits of environmentally friendly research & development processes, will host the SFC 2008 Conference in Zurich, Switzerland. James Waters, founder of Waters Associates (now Waters Corporation) and a leader in the field of chromatography, will join Professor Dr. Massimo Morbidelli of the Swiss Federal Institute of Technology (ETH Zurich) to chair this conference, October 1-2, 2008.

The Scientific Program will include the following speakers:

Dr. J. David Pinkston - The Proctor and Gamble Company
Dr. Dauh Rurng Wu - Bristol Myers Squibb
Dr. Monika Johannsen - Technische Universitat Hamburg-Harburg
Dr. Ng Mei Han - Malaysian Palm Oil Board
Larry Miller - Amgen
Dr. Eric Francotte - Novartis Institutes for Biomedical Research
Dr. David Corens - Johnson & Johnson Pharmaceutical Research and Development, a division of Janssen Pharmaceutica NV
Jimmy DaSilva - Schering-Plough Research Institute
Dr. Ying Wang - Novartis Institutes for Biomedical Research
Dr. Didier Thiebaut - Ecole Superieure de Physique et de Chimie Industrielles de la Ville de Paris
Ray McClain - Merck
Frank Riley - Pfizer
Dr. Larry Taylor - Virginia Tech University


Distinguished chemists and academicians will gather at ETH from such countries as Germany, France, China, Malaysia, Singapore and the United States to introduce and discuss new developments and applications of SFC methods development. Supercritical Fluid Chromatography (SFC) is a burgeoning technology used primarily in the pharmaceutical industry. It harnesses the power of one of nature`s most common elements, CO2, in the drug discovery process.

For more information on the conference and to register, visit the website www.greenchemistrygroup.org. Please email info@greenchemistrygroup.org, if you have any questions.