Laboratory Applies Analytical Chemistry to
Solve Drug-Related Crimes
At a ceremony at the University of Copenhagen, Waters
Corporation (NYSE:WAT) officially welcomed the University’s
Forensic Chemistry Laboratory within the Department of Forensic
Medicine into the Waters Centers of Innovation Program. The
laboratory, headed by Professor Kristian Linnet, provides essential
drug analysis services to law enforcement and medical examiners who
are investigating suicides, suspicious deaths caused by drug
overdoses or poisonings, and drug-related crimes. Test results
obtained on samples collected at a crime scene or from autopsies -
blood, urine, tissue, saliva and hair – are crucial in solving
crimes or the causes of accidental or deliberate death.
“We expect a fruitful collaboration on developing new forensic
methods based on mass spectrometry which is an exciting, rapidly
developing field,” said Niels Morling, Professor, MD, DMSc, Head of
the Department of Forensic Medicine, Faculty of Health and Medical
Sciences, University of Copenhagen, Denmark.
Dr. Petur Weihe Dalsgaard is a research scientist in the
Forensic Chemistry Laboratory. He and his fellow scientists are
experts in the development of new analytical methods based on mass
spectrometry. In his remarks complimenting the work of Dr.
Dalsgaard and his colleagues, Eric Fotheringham, Director - Waters
Centers of Innovation Program said, “We couldn’t be more pleased to
have the University of Copenhagen and Dr. Dalsgaard participate in
our program. Due to popular television series like Making a
Murderer and CSI, forensic science is very much in the public eye
today. It’s a fascinating science and one that skilled scientists
like Petur and his team bring to crime scene investigations every
day.”
On a global scale, the social and economic costs of illegal drug
use and addiction are hard to come by. Estimates vary, but one
thing is for certain: despite hundreds of billions of euros and
dollars spent annually in lost productivity and for healthcare and
drug enforcement costs, the problem remains.
“The illegal drug trade imposes tremendous costs on society.
Lives are ruined and the financial cost to society is enormous. We
see the effects every day,” Dr. Dalsgaard said. “Our mission is to
quickly provide law enforcement with the best available expertise,
along with accurate and unassailable test results that answer some
very tough questions.”
For his work Dr. Dalsgaard employs the Waters® ACQUITY®
UltraPerformance LC® combined with Xevo® quadrupole time-of-flight
mass spectrometers to measure as many as 3,000 individual compounds
in a single analysis. These include individual drug compounds from
a number of categories including amphetamines, benzodiazepines,
cannabinoids, cocaine, methadone and opiates.
In a ceremony held on campus, Waters officially saluted the work
of Dr. Dalsgaard and the Section of Forensic Chemistry with a
forensic science symposium organized in part and sponsored by the
Waters Centers of Innovation Program.
About the University of Copenhagen
The University of Copenhagen (UCPH) is the oldest university and
research institution in Denmark. It is also the largest institution
of research and education in Denmark with about 37,000 students and
7,000 employees. The university is a member of the prestigious
International Alliance of Research Universities (IARU), along with
University of Cambridge, Yale University, The Australian National
University and UC Berkeley, amongst others. It is ranked 45th in
the 2014 QS World University Ranking and 13th in Europe. The
university has had eight alumni become Nobel Laureates and has
produced one Turing Award recipient.
About Waters Centers of Innovation Program
Established in 2010, Waters Centers of Innovation Program
recognizes accomplished scientists and their institutions for
research in the fields of the health sciences, pharmaceuticals,
chemical materials, food and environmental chemistry, mass
spectrometry and separations science. By partnering with leading
scientists and connecting them with experts in mass spectrometry
and separations science, Waters endeavors to bring about inspired
thinking that converts ideas into reality.
The participants in the Waters Centers of Innovation Program
include: Professor Ganesh Anand, National University of Singapore;
Professor Luiz Claudio Cameron, UniRio, Brazil; Professor David
Clemmer, Indiana University; Professor Daniel Tsun-Yee Chiu, Chang
Gung University; Dr. Joseph Dalluge, University of Minnesota; Dr.
Petur Weihe Dalsgaard, University of Copenhagen; Professor Marcos
Eberlin, University of Campinas, Brazil; Professor Chris Elliott,
Queen’s University Belfast; Professor John Engen, Northeastern
University; Prof. Rob Fitzgerald, University of California – San
Diego; Professor Albert J. Fornace, Jr., Georgetown Lombardi
Comprehensive Cancer Center; Professor David Goodlett and Dr.
Maureen Kane, University of Maryland; Professor De-an Guo, Shanghai
Institute of Materia Medica; Dr. Frank Gonzalez, National Cancer
Institute; Prof. Ron Heeren, Maastricht University; Prof. Sunghwan
Kim, Kyungpook National University, Seoul, Korea; Dr. Carlo R.
Largiadèr, Dr. Jean-Francois DuFour and Dr. Martin Fiedler,
Inselspital University Hospital, Bern, Switzerland; Professor Julie
Leary, University of California – Davis; Professor Amit Kumar
Mandal, St. John’s Research Institute, Bangalore, India; Professor
John McLean, Vanderbilt University; Professor Arthur Moseley, Duke
University; Professor Jeremy Nicholson, Imperial College London;
Dr. Devin Peterson, University of Minnesota; Associate Professor
Jessica Prenni, Colorado State University; Dr. Serge Rezzi, Nestle
Institute of Health Sciences; Dr. Ryan Rodgers, Future Fuels
Institute, Florida State University; Professor Pauline Rudd,
National Institute for Bioprocessing Research and Training;
Professor James Scrivens, University of Warwick; Professor Vladimir
Shulaev, University of North Texas; Dr. Norman Smith, Kings College
London; Professor Sarah Trimpin, Wayne State University; Professor
Bert van Bavel, NIVA, Oslo, Norway; Caroline West and Eric
Lesselier, University of Orleans, Orleans, France; and Prof. Vicki
Wysocki, The Ohio State University.
About Waters Corporation
(www.waters.com)
Waters Corporation (NYSE:WAT) develops and manufactures advanced
analytical and material science technologies for laboratory
dependent organizations. For more than 50 years, the company has
pioneered a connected portfolio of separations science, laboratory
information management, mass spectrometry and thermal analysis
systems.
Waters, ACQUITY, UltraPerformance LC and Xevo are trademarks of
Waters Corporation.
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