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Krystyn Alter-Hall                                                                                              

Research Interests

LC-MS Fingerprinting of Counterfeit Antimalarials

Krystyn graduated from our group in 2005 with an MSc. She pioneered the work with counterfeit antimalarials using LC-MS, developing a very powerful fingerprinting approach which we used for clustering fakes into different groups. We then moved to high throughput approaches such as DESI and DART.

Publications

1. "Characterization of Counterfeit Artesunate Antimalarial Tablets from SE Asia", K. Alter Hall, P.N. Newton, M.D. Green, M. de Veij, P. Vandenabeele, D. Pizzanelli, M. Mayxay, A. Dondorp, N.J. White, F.M. Fernández, Am. J. Trop. Med. Hyg., 2006, 75(5), 804-811.

2. "Fast detection and identification of counterfeit antimalarial tablets by Raman spectroscopy", M. de Veij, P. Vandenabeele, K. Alter Hall, F.M. Fernández, M. Green, N.J. White, A. Dondorp, P.N Newton and L. Moens, J. Raman Spectrosc., 2007, 38, 181-187.