Particle agglomeration can compromise the clinical efficacy of pharmaceutical products and must therefore be closely controlled. Automated particle image analysis provides one technology which can aid agglomerate detection. This article provides practical guidance on how imaging can be applied as a routine method to robustly identify and quantify the state of agglomeration of pharmaceutical formulations.

My love of biology, mass spectrometry and computer programming has led me down an uncommonly rewarding path of discovery and innovation. Here, I share some of my story and look towards the horizon of my exciting and ever-changing field.

How can a metrology project to measure zero help in the goal of cleaner air?

This year, I feel proud and humbled to have received two special accolades – the Dal Nogare Award and the Uwe D. Neue Award. After many years in both industry and academia, it’s extremely gratifying to be recognized. Here’s how I got where I am today.

The Uwe D. Neue award recognizes the impact that breakthrough work by industrial scientists has on analytical science. 2015’s recipient is Mark Schure – and here’s why.

Two advances in (bio)pharmaceutical manufacture that aim to democratize the gift of medicine

Sons and daughters; love and lemur scent

Conventional mass spectrometry can only measure the mass of a molecule – what if you could image the same molecule simultaneously?

Hair analysis has been spectacularly debunked as “pseudoscience” – what now?

Actually, I don’t have the power. But you do, as we launch the 2015 Power List to celebrate the Top 100 most influential analytical scientists.