Addressing the “Identity Crisis” in Small Molecule Compound Identification

Seema Sharma, Product Manager, Thermo Fisher Scientific

She obtained her Ph.D. in Physical Organic Chemistry at Rutgers University and Post doc at the Pacific Northwest National Laboratory. Prior to her current postion at Thermo Fisher Scientific, she worked as Research Staff at Stanford School of Medicine Canary Center for Cancer Early Detection.

Tim Stratton, Manager of Library Technologies, Thermo Fisher Scientific

Graduate of the University of Minnesota.  Started my career as an analyst in pharma working in regulated analysis, quality control, method validation, etc. for many years with Solvay Pharmaceuticals.  Migrated into pharma research when I moved to Abbott Laboratories working in drug metabolism and pharmacokinetics in all aspects from early high throughput screening to post market phase 4 studies.  My work in research extended for almost 10 years and included working for both large and small pharma companies.  My specific area of focus was structure elucidation and fragmentation interpretation and it’s still an area I really enjoy.  I joined Thermo Fisher almost ten years ago working in the Pharma vertical marketing group, mainly because they promised I could play with the latest toys before they were available.  Since then I’ve been involved in hardware and software testing and development as well as working directly with customers for support and to better understand their needs.  The past few years I’ve transitioned to focus more on the construction of high resolution accurate mass MS/MS and MSn spectral libraries to help with identification of unknowns across all areas of research and this continues to be the main area of focus for me.