Clinical Mass Spectrometry Congress Hosted by MSACL to Present Recent Advances

This September 8-11, the Association for Mass Spectrometry: Applications to the Clinical Lab (MSACL) will be hosting the 2nd European Congress at the Salzburg Congress Center in Austria. The congress will be prefaced by two days of Short Courses covering the topics of Getting Started with Quantitative LC-MS/MS in the Diagnostic Laboratory, Development and Validation of Quantitative LC-MS/MS Assays for Use in Clinical Diagnostics, Whole-Cell Pathogen Detection by MALDI-TOF MS and Advanced Proteomics Approaches, and A Newbie’s Introduction to the R Statistical Programming Language. The congress will open with an Exhibitor and Poster reception on Wednesday evening to kick-off the main scientific program presented over the following two days, including 36 research-based Podium presentations and Plenary presentations from Linda Thienpont, Douglas Kell, Andy Hoofnagle, Wiebke Arlt and Donald Hunt. Notably, the scientific program will also include a Newbies / Fundamentals track covering introductory topics such as the basic mass spectrometry, compound-specific tuning, developing MRM transitions, LC method development, and sample preparation basics. 

From inception, it has been MSACL’s mission to educate with the aim of developing an understanding of the value of mass spectrometry in the clinic, as well as technical aspects of use, while supporting the growth and attendance of young scientists who are shaping the field. To this end, MSACL provides an expansive Travel Grant program to recruit the attendance of Young Investigators, Trainees and Lab Directors. This year, MSACL is providing 144 grants for the 2015 US conference and 68 for the upcoming 2015 EU congress – approximately 15% of attendees. This investment in the future is supported by the generosity and foresight of Thermo Scientific, Waters, Shimadzu and Cambridge Isotope Labs, companies committed towards driving education, in order to accelerate the implementation of mass spectrometry in the clinic.

View the MSACL 2015 EU Preliminary Program at https://www.msacl.org/2015_EU_program.

Poster abstracts are being accepted for consideration through July 15.

If you are interested in attending the US version of MSACL, Travel Grant applications as well as Podium and Poster Abstracts may be submitted for the MSACL 2016 US conference to be held in Palm Springs, California from February 21-25, 2016.

MSACL is a non-profit educational association dedicated to the advancement of mass spectrometry in the clinical laboratory. More information is available at http://www.msacl.org