Sam Albeke has over a decade of experience in biochemistry and has been with Element since 2014.
Sam has over a decade of experience in biochemistry, specifically extractables and leachables (E&L).
Experience
Sam started his career as an R&D chemist formulating polymeric coatings with some of the same additives that he now spends his time detecting and identifying as extractables and leachables. Sam has become a knowledgeable expert in the Extractable & Leachable (E&L) industry over the last 9 years working at Element Bend. Sam is a resident SME in sample preparations strategies to tackle chromatographically challenging matrices. He has shared some of his findings with the rest of the E&L industry with his "Sample Enrichment Approaches for Extractable and Leachable Studies" presentation at Pharma Ed E&L East in 2022.
Sam has also has a vast array of experience overcoming the multitude of analytical challenges that can present themselves when performing E&L data analysis, such as performing structural elucidation on hundreds of unknown compounds. Sam recently presented on overcoming challenges such as these to experts in the filed with his "Overcoming Challenges Associated with E&L Testing of Flexible Plastic Formulations Used in Medical Devices & Pharmaceutical Packaging" presentation given at Smithers E&L USA 2023
Sam is based at Element Bend, but collaborates with many others throughout Element Life Sciences in the Americas.
Career highlights
“Overcoming Challenges Associated with E&L Testing of Flexible Plastic Formulations Used in Medical Devices & Pharmaceutical Packaging” Sam Albeke, Smithers Extractables & Leachables USA, Washington, D.C. May, 2023
“Sample Enrichment Approaches for Extractable and Leachable Studies” Sam Albeke, Pharma Ed Extractables & Leachables East, Philadelphia, PA, September, 2022
“Sample Enrichment Approaches for Extractable and Leachable Studies” Sam Albeke, The Ever Changing World of E&L, Virtual Event, May, 2022
“Epoxidized Soybean Oil as Plasticizers” Sam Albeke, LinkedIn Whitepaper, April, 2021
Developed internal process for matching drug product extraction propensity with simulation solution to streamline extractables evaluations
Developed Element Bend pharmaceutical stability impurity characterization program
Led creation of high-resolution accurate mass E&L screening methods that allow for automated database searching
Manages team of experienced team of GC and LC chemists as Chromatography Manager
