AB SCIEX公司中国区总经理高醇新博士在致辞中说到，“AB SCIEX在2009年9月加入丹纳赫集团，成为丹纳赫集团生命科学与诊断业务的一员。在质谱技术方面，AB SCIEX是拥有20多年质谱创新历史，拥有近千项质谱相关专利技术。目前，AB SCIEX拥有串联飞行时间质谱(TOF-TOF)、三重四极串联质谱(TripleQuad)及三重四极杆/线性加速离子阱(QTRAP)等三大质谱平台 ，可全面覆盖从大分子到小分子的分析需求。此外，AB SCIEX拥有600人的应用技术团队，与全球1400家机构合作，可以广泛提供药物研发、食品和环境污染物分析、临床研究、法医毒理学、蛋白质研究等领域应用解决方案。”
此次推出的4500系列质谱仪是基于分析科学界科学家和应用专家的反馈，在AB SCIEX现有的系统上进行了重新设计，结合了4000系列的耐用性及5500系列的高性能打造的一款高性价比的质谱系统。
据AB SCIEX资深研究科学家LeBlanc Yves先生介绍，“4500系列质谱有三大创新，即(1)新的锥孔设计使得系统真空负载更低，系统稳定性更好;(2)全新的射频电场设计使系统可测质量数上限达2000Da，高于5500系列;(3)全新真空系统设计，保证真空系统更安静、性能更可靠。同时4500系列传承了5500系列的八大优势，如Turbo VTM离子源、QJet® 2离子导入技术、Q0高压碰撞聚焦室、专利Qurved LINAC®弯曲碰撞室、专利的线性加速离子阱技术Linear AcceleratorTM、AcQuRateTM脉冲计数检测器及与5500系列通用的软件平台等。4500系列质谱系统可满足毒药物动力学、法规生物分析、食品和环境污染物筛查、靶向定量的蛋白质组学、临床研究等应用需求。”
与4500系列质谱仪同时发布的还有UHPLC产品ekspert TM ultral LC 100/100-XL，这也是AB SCIEX自2010年2月收购Eksigent公司后，首次推出UHPLC系统。据AB SCIEX亚太区Eksigent产品负责人薛元臻先生介绍，“AB SCIEX之所以开发ekspert TM ultral LC 100/100-XL系统是为了使AB SCIEX成为一个完整的LC/MS/MS系统解决方案供应商，ekspert TM ultral LC系统也成为Eksigent微升和纳升级液相产品的完美补充。”据悉，与eksigent微升及纳升级液相产品不同，ekspert TM ultral LC 100/100-XL是荷兰制造，其最大耐压达18000psi，流速范围0.001-5mL/min，专利的自动进样器能够更为高效的吸取样品，条形码阅读器配件能够提供监管的记录管理。
发布会上，AB SCIEX公司全球食品安全和环境市场经理Lauryn Bailey女士还给与会者介绍了4500系列LC/MS/MS系统在食品安全与环境、临床研究和法医毒理学中的应用。
发布会后，AB SCIEX公司中国区总经理高醇新博士接受了媒体记者的采访。在采访中，高醇新博士表示，“AB SCIEX公司在TripleQuad及QTRAP技术方面追循小型化、大众化、移动化及自动化发展趋势，此次推出的4500系列质谱仪就很好体现了小型化和大众化的趋势。并且在完整解决方案方面，AB SCIEX今年也有更多计划，随着质谱、UHPLC产品的推出，AB SCIEX还将推出样品预处理相关产品，以及从姊妹公司贝克曼公司引入毛细管电泳系统等。”
此外，高醇新博士还说到，“AB SCIEX公司很重视中国市场，未来将在开发针对中国市场产品、与中国同行展开合作及培养人才方面做更多工作。2012年，AB SCIEX还将在北京建立中国第二个应用技术中心，规模与上海应用中心堪比，并与其形成互补。”
Press Release
AB SCIEX 4500 series delivers 10x better sensitivity over competitors’ triple quadrupoles in the same class
Framingham, Mass. -
March 12, 2012
AB SCIEX, a global leader in life science analytical technologies, today announced the introduction of the AB SCIEX 4500 series, which is next-generation, mass spectrometry instrumentation that sets a new benchmark for routine quantitation and screening. The AB SCIEX TripleQuadTM 4500 System is a new triple quadrupole system that delivers 10x better sensitivity over competitive triple quadrupole systems in the same mid-level class. The series is on display this week at PITTCON 2012 (AB SCIEX booth # 2819).
This new system from AB SCIEX was developed based on feedback from top scientists and application experts in analytical science that led to intelligently re-engineering the company's existing API 4000, which is the best-selling LC/MS/MS system in history. The new AB SCIEX 4500 system is designed to be the new 'workhorse' mass spectrometer with industry-leading ruggedness.
AB SCIEX is also delivering the 4500 system with the option of QTRAP® technology, which is recognized as delivering the world's leading solution for simultaneous quantitation and library searching. The proprietary QTRAP® system increases full-scan sensitivity by 100x over basic triple quadrupoles by incorporating the world's most sensitive Linear AcceleratorTM Trap, providing unmatched levels of confidence in results for screening applications.
"AB SCIEX extends its technology leadership in the mass spectrometry industry once again," said Rainer Blair, President of AB SCIEX. "AB SCIEX has introduced the industry's most rugged mass spectrometry platform with the best combination of sensitivity and performance for reliable quantitation and simultaneous library searching. The AB SCIEX 4500 series is truly best in class for analytical scientists who need a dependable LC/MS/MS workhorse system to deliver results they can trust hour after hour and day after day."
To simplify the adoption of this next generation of LC/MS/MS technology, AB SCIEX unveiled today new bundled solution packages called AB SCIEX Accelerated Lab IntegrationTM Packages. These packages consist of not only the mass spectrometer, but also the standards, software, training, validation services and a liquid chromatography (LC) system, including the new Eksigent ekspertTM ultra 100 and 100-XL systems. These ekspert LC systems are analytical flow rate LC systems that AB SCIEX announced at PITTCON this morning as part of the expansion of its LC product portfolio. (See separate press release).
With the new 4500 series, the new LC systems and the Accelerated Lab Integration packages, scientists and laboratory analysts are able to significantly improve results for a variety of applications, including food and environmental contamination analysis; clinical research, forensic toxicology, protein identification, peptide quantitation and bioanalysis.
"Next-generation technology offers the opportunity to improve analyses," said Xiangyu Jiang, Associate Director of Analytical & Instrumentation Services, Covance Laboratories. "Having 42 API 4000s in our LC/MS labs at Covance, I am pleased to see the next generation of this workhorse technology come out. Just as our challenges and opportunities evolve, it's important that the technology evolves, too."
Note to Editors
The new AB SCIEX 4500 series and Eksigent ekspert Ultra 100 series will be on display in the mobile laboratory that AB SCIEX, along with its partner Phenomenex, has on site in Orlando outside the convention center this week. AB SCIEX and Phenomenex will embark on a 30-city tour across North America over the next two months, demonstrating these new systems for LC/MS/MS workflows.
About AB SCIEX
AB SCIEX helps to improve the world we live in by enabling scientists and laboratory analysts to push the limits in their field and address the complex analytical challenges they face. The company's global leadership and world-class service and support in the mass spectrometry industry have made it a trusted partner to thousands of the scientists and lab analysts worldwide who are focused on basic research, drug discovery and development, food and environmental testing, forensics and clinical research. With over 20 years of proven innovation, AB SCIEX excels by listening to and understanding the ever-evolving needs of its customers to develop reliable, sensitive and intuitive solutions that continue to redefine what is achievable in routine and complex analysis. For more information, please go to www.absciex.com. Follow AB SCIEX on Twitter @ABSCIEX and on Facebook.
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