A number of the CLIRSPEC network attended the Pittcon 2014 meeting in Chicago.
In a special session sponsored by the Society for Applied Spectroscopy (SAS) on Applications of Vibrational Spectroscopy in Medical Diagnostics, Nick Stone spoke on What Lies Beneath: Probing Disease in Sub-surface Tissues Using Novel Raman Techniques while Peter Gardner spoke on Infrared Spectral Pathology: Data Acquisition and Analysis on a Practical Clinical Timescale. The session arranger, Max Diem, wrote a short piece for the SAS newsletter that can accessed here: SAS newsletter
Meanwhile in a session sponsored by the Royal Society of Chemistry and arranged by May Copsey, Roy Goodacre spoke on the Detection of Drugs and Drug Metabolites Using SERS.
Sergei Kazarian‘s work on ATR-FTIR Spectroscopic Imaging and Modeling of Drug Release from Swelling Tablets was presented by James Kimber while Anton Gabrienko presented on Precipitation from Crude Oil Studied with ATR-FTIR Spectroscopic Imaging.