University collaborating with LabLogic on new radio-HPLC detector

03/03/2010

LabLogic Systems has entered into a two-year research partnership with the Physics and Astronomy Department at the UK’'s University of Sheffield to develop the next generation of its β-RAM radio-HPLC flow-through detector.

"The β-RAM has been the market-leader in pharmaceutical pre-clinical research since it was introduced 20 years ago," says LabLogic managing director Richard Brown, "but if it is to retain its position as the life scientist’s preferred choice it must keep abreast of developments in the photo-multiplier tubes (PMT) that it uses for detection."

"The University has considerable experience of using the latest PMT techniques in research fields such as particle physics, so we want to find out whether they can be applied to make our detector more sensitive and efficient."

Working with LabLogic on the β-RAM project is University post-doctoral research assistant Tom Deakin. Initially he will be spending time with the company’'s customer support staff, visiting β-RAM users all over the world to find out how they think their expectations of the instrument might change in the foreseeable future.