The Chromatographic Society Spring Symposium & Annual General Meeting

As trailed in the previous issue of Chromatography Today (5(2)), the 2012 Chromatographic Society Spring Symposium was held in Sunderland on Wednesday, 30th May and Thursday 31st May, a relatively focussed event to mark the quarter of a century existence 

of the University of Sunderland’s BSc Chemical and Pharmaceutical Science course (provider of many graduate separation scientists for the UK pharmaceutical industry) having metamorphosed into a more wide ranging event. At a time of austerity and hardship for R&D in the UK pharmaceutical industry (itself one of the themes addressed at the meeting), around 90 delegates assembled at the Stadium of Light. With restrictions on travel prevailing, delegates from Big Pharma were thin on the ground but, gratifyingly, there was a good proportion of students in the audience thereby allowing the Chromatographic Society to fulfil one of its aims of fostering the separation scientists of tomorrow.