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A high-powered guest faculty from industry and academia share their insights on the basic principles and applications of cutting edge bioanalytical techniques. Instructors from Merck Research Laboratories, Bristol-Myers Squibb, Roche Discovery Technologies, Thermo Fisher Scientific, Inc., the Albert Einstein College of Medicine, the Weill Cornell Medical College, and the Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center. Topics include Chromatographic Separation/ Isolation of Biomolecules; Electrophoresis; Mass Spectrometry for Protein Characterization/Proteomics, Lipids, and Drugs/Metabolites; Ion Mobility Spectrometry; Analytical Flow Cytometry; High Throughput/ High Content Screening; Magnetic Resonance Imaging and Analysis; Gene Expression Analysis; and Genomic Analysis. protocols

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