32nd International Symposium on High Performance Liquid Phase Separations and Related Techniques, May 10-16, Baltimore, MD, USA

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.