Research institute celebrates 40th anniversary

Bar­nett Insti­tute marks four decades of research with celebratory conference.

Northeastern’s Bar­nett Insti­tute of Chem­ical and Bio­log­ical Analysis (MA, USA) has recently celebrated its 40th anniversary. The milestone was honored by a day conference, held on Northeastern University campus.

Attendees of the conference ranged from industry to academia, reflecting one of the institute’s primary goals of focusing on industrial partnerships. As the institute’s founding director, Barry Karger commented on this relationship, “We have believed for a long time that industry and acad­emia have to come closer together, and there’s a lot of com­mon­ality between them.”

Barnett Institute has contributed to numerous scientific advancements since it was founded in 1983, including “new ana­lyt­ical tech­niques and instru­men­ta­tion, a major ana­lyt­ical con­tri­bu­tion to the Human Genome Project, and the dis­covery of novel bio­markers for cancer.” Among numerous ongoing projects, researchers at the institute are currently developing novel pharmaceutical analytical techniques to address the influx of biosimilars in the industry in recent years.

Following the conference, the attendees attended a gala celebration. In addition to the institute’s landmark anniversary, it was also a time to mark Karger’s 50 years of ser­vice to the university; with the university releasing plans to estab­lish the ‘Karger Prize in Bio­an­a­lyt­ical Chemistry’.

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