Meeting MINUTES: Innovations in Clinical Sampling (ICS) – AAPS Bioanalytical Community Sub-Team
Meeting Date: September 12, 2025
Meeting Summary
Leadership Introductions
- · Shefali Patel (Chair)
- · Qin Ji (Co-Chair)
- · Enaksha Wickremsinhe (Past Chair)
- · Steve Lowes (Secretary)
History of Group
- · Provided by Enaksha Wickremsinhe
- · Brief history from 2010 formation through to today
- · Rebranding group as Innovations in Clinical Sampling (ICS)
Goals 2025
- · Publication of nonclinical paper in AAPS Journal - achieved
- · Publication of clinical paper in AAPS Journal – achieved
- · Re-focusing the group to support broader patient centric needs and applications
- · New leadership and structure to conform with the Bioanalytical Community Charter
· Continue to support AAPS conference programming
· Discussion of 2026 Goal planning per AAPS Guidance:
o Scientific Goal
o Manuscript Goal
o Inter-community Goal
o Communication of Progress Goal
o Student/Post-Doc/Early Career Scientist Support Goal
· Suggestion of a <7-word Mission Statement
Meeting Format:
- · Membership of AAPS is required
- · Held bi-monthly
- · 2nd Friday of month at 12 noon (US EST)
- · TEAMs based
- · Invites to be sent to List Serve
- · Brief minutes published to Community Board
- · Vendor participation is permitted to support innovation-focused discussions.
Key Discussions
- · Logistics of bringing patient centered sampling (PCS) to the patient – What do we have to do?
- · Adopting/incorporation ICS techniques and technologies - challenges and lessons learned etc.
- · Sample management challenges of PCS strategies
- · Do we keep recycling the same information?
- · What more can we do around patient engagement?
Upcoming Meetings
November 14, 2025
• Featured Presentation:
- Matt Blatnik to present:
Quantitative advancements are driving patient centric sampling in the clinic: a case study examining TASSO, DBS and Mitra vs intravenous sampling
PharmSci 360 (Week of November 10, 2025)
• Steve Lowes will attend and represent the ICS sub-team.
• Shefali to circulate slides summarizing past goals and achievements.
Action Items
· Meeting minutes posted to Community Board (within 2 working days)
· Invites sent out for 14th Nov meeting
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Stephen Lowes Ph.D.
Sr. Director, Scientific Affairs
IQVIA Laboratories
Freeville NY
[email protected]Disclaimer: Opinions expressed are solely my own and do not express the views or opinions of my employer.
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