5 Key Takeaways

• 1

  Edward Sisco develops technologies and data analytics to provide timely, comprehensive chemical insights into the illicit drug supply.

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  His team analyzes samples to identify substances, concentrations, locations, and origins, and uses its workflows to deliver results to partners within hours.

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  Sisco expects point-of-need instrumentation and next-generation chemometrics to shape analytical science over the next 5 to 10 years.

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  He says standardized laboratory methods could build larger data sets and support objective drug identification and analysis of synthesis, batch links, trafficking routes, and potential harm.

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  Collaboration with public health and harm-reduction professionals has shown Sisco how chemical measurements can inform safety conversations, clinical interventions, and pathways to treatment.