RAPID DEVELOPMENT OF THERAPEUTIC DRUG MONITORING FOR IMMUNOSUPPRESSANT DRUGS

Human organ transplantation is a relatively new area of application for Chromatography and Mass Spectroscopy to be associated with. The need to accurately monitor with short analysis times and high specificity the levels of immunosuppressant drugs in the patients’ body from blood samples can occasionally be a ‘lifeor- death’ situation. For many years the Instrument companies who manufacture mass spectrometers paid little attention to the clinical area when other areas within life sciences, environmental and then the –omics group received much attention.