Recently, we had a chance to attend a conference sponsored by U.S. Senator Chris Coons featuring some of the top names in international leadership discussing the future of Africa.
Speaker included:
- Millennium Challenge Corporation Chief Executive Officer Daniel Yohannes
- U.S. Agency for International Development Director Dr. Raj Shah
- His Excellency Cyrille S. Oguin, Ambassador of Benin
- Rebecca Faber, World Trade Center Delaware
- Tim McCoy, Vice President, Corporate Council on Africa
- John Kilama, Ph.D., Founder, Global Bioscience Diversity Institute
- Mike Haney, Business Development, Wise Power
- Stephen K. Morrison, Foreign Commercial Service Officer, U.S. Export Assistance Center, U.S. Department of Commerce
- James Kiiru, Economic Attache, Kenyan Embassy
- Thomas DeBass, Dir., Global Partnership Initiative, Office of the Secretary of State
- Romi Bhatia, U.S. Agency for International Development
- Mark Quarterman, Research Director, the Enough Project
- Leslie Lefkow, Senior Researcher on Africa, Human Rights Watch
- Dahlia Rockowitz, Director of Reverse Hunger Campaign, American Jewish World Service
- Faustine Wabwire, Foreign Assistance Policy Analyst, Bread for the World Institute
- Blake Selzer, Senior Policy Advisor, CARE
- Dr. Pearl Alice Marsh, U.S. Policy Director, ONE Campaign
- Donna Barry, Advocacy and Policy Director, Partners in Health
A consistent theme emerged from this conference - innovation, research, and science will play major roles in both accelerating the economic opportunities in Africa and addressing humanitarian issues.
We were proud to participate in this event and look forward to working with our friends in the global scientific community to make our world a better place for all of us.
We Work for Health Delaware (WWFH – DE) and the Delaware BioScience Association recognized U.S. Senator Tom Carper as a “Champion for Continued Jobs Creation Through Innovation.” Senator Carper’s support of key legislative issues impacting the biotech industry, such as the America Invents Act, speak volumes about his commitment to protecting jobs in Delaware. Delaware is an established leader in the biotechnology industry. It is home to some of the world’s largest biotech companies. These companies provide not only jobs and revenue, but also much needed research used to combat some of our most serious medical challenges. It’s important that we do all that we can to protect this industry, and the jobs it creates for our citizens. WWFH – DE and Delaware Bio thank Senator Carper for being a leader in the Senate on issues critical to the continued success of the biopharmaceutical and healthcare industries in Delaware and for being champion of innovation.
Here's our message to Senator Carper:
and some more photos from the event held on Friday, December 9, 2011:
We are proud to announce that we are now members of the Chromatography Forum of Delaware Valley.
The Chromatography Forum of Delaware Valley is one of the world's first and most active discussion groups in Chromatography and Separation Science.
Since 1966, the CFDV has offered monthly meetings, short courses, symposia and awards in the Philadelphia area. This all-volunteer, non-profit group is made of people from the chemical industry, pharmaceutical companies great and small, food manufacturers, flavors, polymers, forensics, environmental, clinical, research institutes, instrument manufacturers, and universities both faculty and students.
On December 6, we were fortunate to hear from Dr. Wyatt Vreeland, a Research Chemical Engineer in the Macromolecular Structure and Function group at the National Institute of Standards and Technology.
Dr. Vreeland spoke about Microfluidics, which has long been touted as a critical enabling technology for the next generation of chemical and biological analyses. In fact, microfluidics is a very active area of research with journals focusing on lab-on-a-chip technologies and their applications often garnering the highest impact factors in the analytical chemistry community’s archival literature.
We are at the 50th Annual Easterna Analytical Symposium in Somerset, New Jersey.
It's an honor to be celebrating 50 years of separation science with such a great organization - here's a look at this morning's opening ceremonies and a talk with EAS President David Russell:
Here's a 3 minute look at our trip to Sao Paulo, Brazil - from touring the city to meeting with other companies to time at the trade show - we had an incredible time and we hope that comes through in this montage:
Kudos to the good people at ChemlabDMU in the UK for adding fun, creativity, Star Wars, and Thin Layer Chromatography together to create this video - you've hit all of our favorite things!
We wanted to give you a feel for Analitica Latin America - so here's Steven Miles with Neyde Ishioka offering the Portuguese translation.
Queríamos dar-lhe uma sensação para Analitica Latin America - por isso aqui está Steven Miles, com Neyde Ishioka oferecendo a traduçãoPortuguês.
We want to take a moment to thank a couple of individuals who have made our trip to Brazil both possible and successful.
David Mathe is Deputy Director of the International Trade and Development Office
with the State of Delaware. David has worked with us for some time to prepare us for our first time attending Analitica Latin America. David's insight, professionalism, and consistent willingness to go above and beyond the call of duty has made this a truly great experience for us.
Neyde Ishioka is a Business Development Consultant. She and her team have 
arranged meetings for us, prepared our itinerary, and helped with translating for us at Analitica.
We are truly grateful to David and Neyde for all they have done and we look forward to working with them in the future.
We had a pleasant surprise today when the President of Pittcon 2012, Jon Peace, stopped by our booth at Analitica Latin America - you never
know who you're going to meet when you travel.
The introductions, meetings, and collaborations continue - we're looking forward to what's in store for us on Thursday!
Anyone who knows us knows that we are thrilled to be a part of some incredible communities and organizations - especially being part of the state of Delaware.
This trip to Sao Paulo is happening for us primarily because of the work done by
the Delaware Office of International Trade and Development (more on that in a future post) and involves a few other Delaware businesses.
The Delaware group enjoyed a great meal together Monday evening at an exquisite Brazilian Steak House.
Tuesday morning was spent meeting with more businesses in Sao Paulo, then it was show time at the Analitica Latin America Conference. The Delaware booth was buzzing with activity throughout the day.
We're looking forward to an exciting Wednesday!