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The island of Malta, the venue of the Conference concentrates on 316
square kilometers splendid witnesses to an eventful history that goes
back to the Bronze Age and saw periods of Arabian, Italian, French,
and British dominance. The Conference offered various opportunities
to experience Maltese hospitality and encouraged the exchange of
ideas and thoughts among the attendees and to establish and renew
friendships with colleagues from around the world.
The Scientific committee of the conference, headed by Alois
Jungbauer (BOKU, University of Natural Resources and Life Sciences
Vienna, Austria) composed a striking program, balanced between
fundamentals and industrial applications. The program started with
a keynote lecture of Arieh Ben-Naim, who reflected on “Hydrophobic
hydrophilic phenomena in aqueous solutions”. The lively and engaged
presentation was a remarkable opening of the conference that will
certainly be remembered.
The evening event of the first day was marked by honouring one of
the long time fellows of this conference, Milton Hearn. Alois Jung-
bauer proposed a toast to Milton who has been awarded the 2015
American Chemical Society (ACS) Alan S. Michaels Award and the
prestigious 2015 ACS Award in Chromatography. In addition, he was
recognized as Member of the Order of Australia for his significant ser-
vice to science through major contributions to advances in chemical
manufacturing. The delicious dinner was the icing on the cake to the
first day of the conference.
Back to the conference talks: The fundamentals session offered a
range of approaches on fundamental understanding of hydrophobic
interaction and mixed-mode chromatography. While Steven M.
Cramer (Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute, Troy, US) focused on ligand
design for multimodal resins, Christian Frech (University of Applied
Science, Mannheim, DE) presented modelling of dual salt gradient
elution in multimodal chromatography.
9
th
HIC/RPC Bioseparation Conference in Malta
In the previous issue of this magazine we announced the 9th HIC/RPC Bioseparation Conference held from March
16-19, 2015 in Sliema Malta. The HIC/RPC Conference series, which alternates between Europe and the USA, provides
a unique forum for in-depth discussion of downstream processing. Following its tagline ‘Advancements, Appli-
cations, and Theory in Downstream Processing’ the conference traditionally focuses on bioprocess applications
and on fundamental research on hydrophobically influenced modes of chromatography. In the course of time the
emphasis of the conference shifted towards hydrophobic interaction (HIC) and in recent years especially towards
mixed-mode chromatography.
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