September 2016 SPDS Book

SPDS Meeting, September 16-17, 2016 – Chair and Presenter Bios

PRESENTER BIOS

RICHARD B. VAN BREEMEN, PHD, UNIVERSITY OF ILLINOIS COLLEGE OF PHARMACY

WORKING GROUP

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Richard B. van Breemen is the Matthias C Lu Collegiate Professor of Pharmacy and Professor of Medicinal Chemistry and Pharmacognosy at the University of Illinois College

of Pharmacy. He serves as Director of the UIC/NIH Center for Botanical Dietary Supplements Research and leads the Mass Spectrometry, Metabolomics and Proteomics Facility for the University of Illinois Cancer Center. Prof. van Breemen received his B.A. in chemistry from Oberlin College in 1980 and Ph.D. in Pharmacology and Experimental Therapeutics from the Johns Hopkins University in 1985. He carried out post-doctoral research in laser desorption mass spectrometry at Johns Hopkins before joining North Carolina State University in 1994 and then the University of Illinois College of Pharmacy. He is a Regional Editor of Biomedical Chromatography and on the editorial board of Assay and Drug Development Technologies. Prof. van Breemen has received an Expert Methods Panel award from the AOAC International for his work on analytical methods for dietary supplements, the Harvey W. Wiley Award from the AOAC International, and the 2015 Researcher of the Year Award from the University of Illinois at Chicago. His research concerns the discovery and development of natural products as chemoprevention agents and the investigation of botanical dietary supplements as alternatives to hormone therapy for menopausal women. Anton Bzhelyansky holds a Master’s degree in analytical chemistry from the University of Maryland Baltimore County. His thesis, under the direction of George M. Murray, was on uranyl-templated polymers. Upon graduation, he spent 13 years working for generic pharmaceutical and dietary supplement companies, primarily as a method developer. Anton’s analytical portfolio includes methodologies for a broad spectrum of analytes, from conventional pharmaceutical APIs to complex dietary supplement formulations, from marine oils to vitamins, chondroitins and botanicals. During his tenure in the dietary supplement industry, he implemented total inspection of incoming raw materials by NIR, established ICP-OES routine analysis, studied sampling of incoming ingredients and in-process blends, worked on formulation of enteric-coated dosage forms, and served as a Waters Empower® administrator. An AOCS Approved Chemist in 2011-2012, Anton developed a 20-minute marine oil GC method (poster at AOAC 125 th Annual Meeting) and optimized Peroxide and Anisidine Value analyses. ANTON BZHELYANSKY, USP CHAIR, GINGER WORKING GROUP