AOAC SPDS Mid Year 2016

SPDS Meeting, March 17-18, 2016 – Chair and Presenter Bios

Kan He (Continued)

five years, he has been working in the area of natural products chemistry and authored or co-authored over 70 research papers on the peer reviewed scientific journals and book chapters. Kan He holds 11 US patents on the development of new herbal ingredients and new herbal manufacturing processes.

ANIKÓ SÓLYOM

SPDS TURMERIC WORKING GROUP

Anikó Sólyom, Ph.D. is the founder of GAAS Analytical, an independent contract testing laboratory with a focus on natural products and dietary supplements. She has 30+ years of comprehensive experience in analytical method development and method validation, using wide variety of analytical techniques to solve diverse problems. Dr. Sólyom was selected in 2015 to serve a 5 year term as the member of the USP’s Non-botanical Dietary Supplements Expert Committee. She is a member of the NIST/NIH DSQAP Advisory Board and serves on the AOAC’s Expert Review Panel. She is the Chair of the AOAC SPDS Turmeric Working Group and a current member of several other AOAC working groups. She has more than 40 papers published in peer-reviewed journals, and author of a patent. She holds B.S, M.S. and Ph.D. degrees in the areas of organic and analytical chemistry.