Agilent Presents Thought Leader Award to Professor Gang Yu
August 15 2019 - 8:00AM
Business Wire
Influential Tsinghua researcher recognized for his work in
environmental science and engineering related to emerging organic
contaminants in water
Agilent Technologies Inc. (NYSE: A) today announced that Dr.
Gang Yu, a professor at the School of Environment at Tsinghua
University in Beijing, China, has received an Agilent Thought
Leader Award. The award recognizes his contributions towards
understanding the problems caused by emerging organic contaminants
in water, and the development of solutions to combat these
problems.
Professor Yu is also director of Beijing Key Laboratories for
Emerging Organic Contaminants Control, and director of Tsinghua
Research Center on Persistent Organic Pollutants. The School of
Environment at Tsinghua University is one of the leading
environmental education and research institutes in the world.
The award will provide support to Professor Yu and his team for
continuing research into emerging organic contaminants in surface
waters and groundwater, and ongoing efforts in the development of
advanced pollution control technologies and strategies.
Using non-targeted screening methods for simultaneous suspect
screening and unknown compound identification (based on LC-QTOF),
combined with targeted quantification (using LC-QQQ) instruments
from Agilent, Professor Yu, and his team are developing methods and
technologies to advance the detection and identification of these
new and emerging organic contaminants in water. The discovered
contaminants can then be addressed under new regulations and
pollution control strategies, providing profound benefits to the
health and safety of the Chinese population.
“Professor Yu is conducting leading-edge research to identify
emerging, or even unknown organic contaminants, that are not yet
being regulated – they are not on priority pollutant lists. His
work is helping to define China’s environmental protection,
pollution control, and remediation strategies related to emerging
organic contaminants,” said Mary McBride, director of Agilent’s
Applied Segment Markets. “With this award, we are pleased to
recognize the foundational work that Professor Yu has done to
advance the science of environmental protection and pollution
prevention.”
McBride noted that Agilent has been collaborating with Professor
Yu for several years. “We have developed workflows for the
quantitative determination of organics in water, and are now
working to develop workflows for emerging organic contaminants in
water,” she added.
“As caretakers of the Earth, we are responsible for creating a
healthy environment without toxic contaminants. However, the
regulation of new contaminants often lags behind the fundamental
understanding of their nature, extent, and impact on the
environment. Intensive, in-depth studies on emerging organic
contaminants will help our society to find ways to improve
environmental quality,” said Professor Yu. “We are excited to work
with Agilent to develop rapid and economic methods for the analysis
of emerging organic contaminants, and the determination of their
risk in water environments.”
The Agilent Thought Leader Award promotes fundamental scientific
advances by contributing financial support, products, and expertise
to the research of influential thought leaders in the life
sciences, diagnostics, and chemical analysis space. Further
information, including previous award recipients, is available on
the Agilent Thought Leader Award web page.
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