“I come from a family of medical professionals and engineers—my mother was a civil engineer—so it came to me naturally,” said Department of Chemistry alumna Rina Dukor (BS ’86, MS ’87, PhD ’91). “But in Russia when I was growing up, there was a lot of discrimination against Jews. It would have been almost impossible to get into a good university. My mother knew I would never reach my full potential if we stayed, so we emigrated to the U.S.

“All the Russians in Chicago settled along Devon Avenue in Rogers Park and either went to Mather or Sullivan High School. I started at Sullivan in October 1980 and graduated a year and a half later. I had a really fun chemistry teacher and because of him truly fell in love with science.”

Dukor is now the President of BioTools, Inc., a company that provides advanced instrumentation and services to pharmaceutical companies and academics engaged in biopharmaceutical and drug research. Their products include the Chiral-RAMAN-2X™ Raman Optical Activity spectrometer, for which they won a 2004 R&D 100 Award, and the ChiralIR-2X™ Vibrational Circular Dichroism (VCD) spectrometer. Read More!

*AtLAS is a UIC, College of Liberal Arts & Sciences publication. http://atlas.las.uic.edu/

During the 2013 Pittcon conference Prof. Laurence Nafie, Distinguished Emeritus Professor at Syracuse University and co-founder of BioTools, Inc., was honored for his achievements in vibrational optical activity by receiving the Pittsburgh Spectroscopy Award presented by the Spectroscopy Society of Pittsburgh (SSP) and presenting a lecture entitled, “Vibrational Optical Activity: A Mature New Field Of Vibrational Spectroscopy.”

The 2013 Pittsburgh Spectroscopy Award presented by the Spectroscopy Society of Pittsburgh (SSP). The SSP Award, established in 1957, honors an individual who has made outstanding contributions in the field of spectroscopy. Laurence A. Nafie received his Ph.D. from the University of Oregon in 1973. He was a postdoctoral associate at the University of Southern California until 1975, when he joined the faculty at Syracuse University. Currently he is Emeritus Distinguished Professor at Syracuse University and Editor-in-Chief of the Journal of Raman Spectroscopy.

http://pittcon.org/technical-program/2013-award-winners/

BioTools names John Shea to position of Vice President of Sales

BioTools, Inc. is pleased to announce the appointment of Mr. John Shea as Vice President of Sales.  John brings with him nearly 20 years of professional experience in molecular spectroscopy and will be responsible for all sales activity in North America. He previously served as Director of North American Molecular Sales for Nicolet Instruments / Thermo Electron Corporation.

“We are very fortunate and excited to have someone of John’s caliber and experience join BioTools. John’s knowledge and technical expertise is a tremendous asset for the growth of the company.” said Dr. Rina K. Dukor, President of BioTools, Inc.

Regarding his new position, John commented “BioTools’ technology is at the forefront of vibrational spectrosopy; the products are of the highest quality and their knowledge-based approach & customer relationships are a top priority at BioTools. I am delighted to join the team!”

(Press Release PDF)

BioTools celebrates growth of VCD at Chirality Meeting!
Vibrational circular dichroism (VCD), a new tool for determining the absolute configuration of chiral molecules, was a key highlight of the recent 24^th International Symposium on Chirality, held June 10-13 in Fort Worth, Texas.  VCD pioneer, BioTools (Jupiter, FL) was on hand, not only sponsoring the exhibitor’s luncheon and the poster awards, but also proudly awarding the Best Poster Given by a Young Scientist for the thirteenth year. Read More Here!

1st place – Frank Maier (Universität Heidelberg)
2nd place – Priyanka Lahiri (Yale University)
3rd place – Hili Marom (The Hebrew University of Jerusalem)

Find out more about EC2 The European Centre for Chirality

View the EC2 Brochure:

BioTools Inc is celebrating its 10-year
anniversary in 2010. From the start, we
dared to be unique, innovative, and
customer- driven and commercialized two
groundbreaking techniques – VCD and ROA.
We thank everyone who helped us along the
way – customers, vendors and friends.
We invite you to partner with us as we look to
the future and continue to revolutionize the
forefront of vibrational spectroscopy.

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