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Daniel J. Magiera, Ph.D.President & Founder Dr. Magiera has more than 10 years of experience developing high performance liquid chromatography (HPLC) assays and is considered an expert in sample preparation techniques used for mass spectrometry (MS) applications. His doctorate thesis, from Northeastern University, involved sample cleanup procedures such as solid phase extraction (SPE) and satellite HPLC to purify derivatized DNA adducts for trace detection using Gas Chromatography (GC)-MS. As a senior scientist at Muro Pharmaceuticals/Asta Medica, he established the impurities identification HPLC-MS/MS laboratory. Dr. Magiera has co-authored numerous publications and has presented orals and posters at industry conferences and meetings with topics covering analytical techniques such as HPLC, SPE, and automated high through put drug analysis by HPLC-MS/MS. Prior to founding MMSD, Dr. Magiera designed, and managed the LC-MS/MS applications lab at Cohesive Technologies, where he developed automated assays for pre-clinical, clinical, and high through put drug discovery. He helped establish generic protocols for fast method development and has helped pioneer the development of applications for a parallel LC-MS/MS platform using on-line sample preparation to analyze drugs and metabolites in biological fluids such as plasma and urine. Dr. Magiera also directed and built the Analytical/Bioanalytical Lab for Spherics, Inc Mansfield, Ma. His responsibilities included driving the purchase of mission critical LC-MS/MS instruments for the Bioanalytical lab under his charge as well as supervising the 14-person lab staff. Before lending his expertise to Spherics, Dr. Magiera served as Principal Analytical Scientist at Sepracor supporting analytical drug development for chirally pure active pharmaceutical ingredients (API) and finished product formulations. Dr. Magiera received his B.A. in Chemistry from Saint Anselm College and his interdisciplinary Ph.D. in Medicinal/Analytical Chemistry from Northeastern University under the direction of Professor Roger Giese. |