QAEHS researchers Dr Richard Bade and PhD student Dhaya Nadarajan presented at the recent Forensic and Clinical Toxicology Association 2024 Conference in Hobart. Richard presented his work on Improving wastewater-based epidemiology for monitoring of new psychoactive substances by combining a high-throughput in vitro metabolism assay and LC−HRMS metabolite identification and Dhaya presented her work on Method development, optimisation, and validation by LC-MS/MS method for 76 new psychoactive substances in wastewater.
Dr Bade was the recipient of the 2024 Olaf Drummer Education Award which provides the awardee $5,000 to contribute towards international conference travel or research laboratory visits in the fields of forensic and clinical toxicology.
Dr Bade reported that, “it was great to see colleagues from different areas including academia, hospitals, state forensic and toxicology institutes all pursuing related research and showing how our work can fit into the larger picture for early warning and public health surveillance”.
