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Local Trainer for the GC-MS training Jomo Kenyatta University of Agriculture and Technology, Nairobi, Kenya He holds a B.Sc degree in Chemistry from University of Nairobi, M.Sc degree in Analytical Science and Ph.D in Analytical Chemistry from The University of Hull, UK in 1991. He the proceeded to University of Plymouth for Post-Doctoral fellowship, in a project on fabrication and design of flow through chemiluminescence detector for application in flow injection and liquid chromatography. Prof Gachanja is the Head of the Analytical Laboratory at Jomo Kenyatta university of Agriculture and Technology, with a vibrant research group. The group is involved in environmental and analytical research in areas of air and water quality: now working on emerging pollutants e.g. pharmaceuticals and homecare products in the environment, pesticide residues, use of Nano cellulose in water purification, gaseous and particulate pollution in air. Prof Gachanja has been working with the Å·ÃÀAV and GSK to train researchers in Africa on GC-MS instrumentation and application. He is among the “175 faces of Chemistry” He is a visiting scientist at the University of Plymouth (UK) and Jyvaskyla University (Finland)

Martin Murigi is a final year MSc student at Jomo Kenyatta University of Agriculture and Technology and works in Prof. Anthony Gachanja’s lab. His work involves development of nanocellulose filters from rice straw for adsorption of active pharmaceutical ingredients in surface water and waste water. He has worked with GCMS and LC/MSMS in the course of his work and has tremendously benefited from several GCMS trainings offered at JKUAT. He has been instrumental in assisting other researchers working with GCMS in Prof Anthony’s lab

Elijah Ngumba, PhD, is an assistant lecturer in the Department of Chemistry Jomo Kenyatta University of Agriculture and Technology (JKUAT), Kenya. He graduated with PhD in Environmental Technology in 2018 from University of Jyväskylä, Finland. He also holds BSc. Chemistry (2006) and MSc. Chemistry (2011) both from JKUAT. He has been working on analytical method development for emerging environmental contaminants based on solid phase extraction and liquid chromatography tandem mass spectrometry (SPE-LC-MS/MS). He has published and presented in local and international conferences on analytical method development as well as occurrence and control of emerging environmental contaminants.

Claire Beaumont currently leads the UK & US Biotransformation Team within the Drug Metabolism and Pharmacokinetics Group, GSK. Her global team is made up of mass spectrometry, nuclear magnetic resonance spectroscopy and biotransformation experts who are responsible for predicting and identifying metabolites from GSK’s portfolio of drug candidates from early discovery (drug molecule design) through development (animal and clinical studies) to drug registration.
Claire has 30 years’ experience in mass spectrometry having worked in the agrochemical industry using both GC/MS and LC/MS prior to her move to GSK in 1997. Her expertise is in drug metabolite characterisation & assessing the impact of metabolites on human safety which has led to publications in peer-reviewed journals.
Claire received her PhD in Analytical Chemistry from the University of London in 1997. Her research focussed on biochemical applications of liquid chromatography-mass spectrometry. She has collaborated with both academia & industry on novel applications of mass spectrometry in the area of Drug Metabolism and Pharmacokinetics, most recently in ion mobility mass spectrometry.
Claire is a Fellow of the Å·ÃÀAV.
In her spare time, Claire enjoys playing tennis and spending time working on her garden or dress-making.