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experience with atomic absorption spectroscopy (AA), inductively coupled plasma emission spectroscopy (ICP),
photoacoustic spectroscopy (PA), UV-Vis spectroscopy, elemental analysis, mass spectrometry (MS), gas
chromatography (GC), GC-MS, LC-MS, NMR and wet techniques.
Before founding GAAS Corporation/GAAS Analytical, I served as director of the Analytical Core at an NIH funded
Botanical Center (Arizona Center for Phytomedicine Research). The Facility focused on quantitation and identification
of natural products and dietary supplements, particularly anti-inflammatory compounds from turmeric, ginger and
boswellia. I developed methods to analyze these compounds from the plant materials, extracts, commercially
available dietary supplements and from different biological matrices. I also developed and validated new assay
methods according to cGLP regulations, to quantify novel cancer drugs in plasma and urine using QQQ LC/MS
technique; identifying metabolites of new cancer drugs in plasma and urine using TOF LC/MS technique and
calculating pharmacokinetic parameters.
I am an active member of AOAC International; I joined the organization in 2002. Currently I am member of AOAC’s
Stakeholder Panel on Dietary Supplements and member of various working groups. I have participated in multiple
AOAC organized collaborative studies (glucosamine, ginkgo, saw palmetto) in order to validate analytical methods to
be used by the dietary supplement industry. I was Horwitz advisor of AOAC until the restructuring the Official
Methods of Analysis (OMA) process in January 2008, when the role of method advisors and Horwitz advisors was
retired. For 5 years I have been serving as member of the Presidential Task Force on Dietary Supplements of AOAC,
and also served as member of Expert Review Panels of AOAC. I was selected in June 2015 to serve a 5 year term as
the member of USP’s Non-botanical Dietary Supplements Expert Committee.
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SULLIVAN, DARRYL
Darryl Sullivan is a Fellow of AOAC and has been an active member since 1980. He has served terms as
secretary, president-elect, president, past president, and director of the Board of Directors, and
previously served a three-year term as chair of the Official Methods Board, and is currently serving as
Chair of the AOAC Stakeholder Panel on Infant Formula and Adult Nutritionals. In 2012 Darryl lead a very
successful AOAC engagement with government and industry thought leaders in India and China on
behalf of SPIFAN. He is also active with the Stakeholder Panel for Strategic Food Analytical Methods and
the Stakeholder Panel for Agent Detection Assays. Sullivan also served a three-year term as a director on
the AOAC Research Institute Board of Directors. He was a founding member and chair of the
Presidential Task Force on Dietary Supplements and a member of the Task Force on Bacillus anthracis, as
well as the AOAC Task Force on Nutrition Labeling and the AOAC Task Force on Sulfites. Prior to
chairing the OMB, he served as a member and chair of the Methods Committee on Commodity Foods
and Commodity Products. Sullivan was a founding member of the AOAC Technical Division on Reference
Materials and served three terms on the Division's Executive Board. A staunch supporter of the
Association, Sullivan was active in the e-CAM and Scholar I projects at AOAC, has exhibited at the annual
meetings for many years, has presented hundreds of papers and posters at AOAC meetings and
regularly publishes his research in the journal of the AOAC. He has also presented a significant number
of papers on behalf of AOAC at other scientific meetings in many different parts of the world.
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TAO, JIANMING
Expertise in: analytical HPLC and LCMS analysis… GCMS analysis… ICPMS analysis… microbiological examinations… cell
/ tissue culture… DNA / RNA isolation… immunoprecipitation… northern and western blot… expression vector
construction… oligonucleotide primer design… DNA sequencing… DNA transformation and transfection… PCR and
quantitative RT-PCR… in vitro cytotoxicity and genotoxicity studies under compliance of GLP…SOP writing…Routinely
analyze aloe anthraquinones in aloe vera products from customers using HPLC and UPLC-MS.
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TORRES, MARINA
I have been working in chromatography analysis for more than 20 years using LC and GC with many detectors, including MSMS
detectors. I work developing and validating chromatography methods. My expertise is mostly in nutrients, additives and pesticide
residues in food. I work in environmental, non food and dietary supplements samples too. I am interested in this ERP because I am
working now in Aloin in dietary supplements.
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