ASMS 2026

De‑risk drug discovery with decision‑ready characterization workflows

Choose the BioPharma track to uncover new insight from today’s most complex therapeutic modalities—from antibody‑drug conjugates (ADCs) to oligonucleotides. Hear from end users on how they’re applying modern LC‑MS workflows to accelerate pharmaceutical and biopharmaceutical discovery and development, with real‑world examples spanning comprehensive ADC characterization, disulfide bond mapping, and cell‑culture media analysis.

Ideal for:

• Biologics R&D
• CMC analytical development
• Characterization to QA/QC
• Multi‑attribute monitoring ADC
• Oligonucleotide
• GLP-1
• Nitrosamines

Understand the dynamics of biology through protein forms, functions and spatiotemporal interactions with deep proteomics by mass spectrometry

Select the Proteomics track for highlights at the frontier of impact in mass spectrometry-based proteomics. Learn how the community is pushing the boundaries of understanding biology through study of single cell proteomics, spatial proteomics, chemoproteomics and characterization of post-translational modifications.

Ideal for:

• Discovery & quantitative proteomics
• PTM studies
• Low‑input and small‑sample work
• Proteomics in Pharma Drug Discovery and Development
• Spatial Omics
• Glycosylation
• Single Cell Omics

Confident metabolite and lipid insight—from discovery to quantitation

Choose the Metabolomics track to focus on practical workflows that improve metabolite and lipid identification, annotation and quantitation across diverse matrices—helping you connect metabolite and lipid changes to pathways, exposure, and phenotype. Discover the most recent developments in comprehensive small molecule characterization and quantitation, including SQUAD (Simultaneous Quantitation and Discovery) analysis and the application of these methods to large cohort studies, natural products discovery and structural lipidomics.

Ideal for:

• Metabolomics & lipidomics
• Exposomics
• Pathway analysis
• Small molecule biomarker discovery
• Targeted metabolomics & lipidomics
• Microbiome
• Low input and single cell analysis

Translational insights: Scaling biomarker research from discovery to verification

Biomarker discovery can reveal important biological insights, but advancing promising candidates requires approaches that support both discovery and reliable results. This session explores how researchers move from early biomarker signals to verified findings while maintaining scalability and analytical precision, enabling reproducible, biologically meaningful data to guide confident next steps in research.

Ideal for:

• Biomarker discovery/verification
• Cohort studies
• Multi omics translation
• Decision support for programs

Structural biology beyond static snapshots: From proteoforms to structure to function relationships

Choose the Structural Biology track to engage with cutting-edge mass spectrometry driven structural biology research while gaining practical insight into experimental design and data interpretation. Explore how advanced MS approaches, including reveal molecular structure, interactions, and heterogeneity. These findings link molecular architecture to biological function and illuminate disease mechanisms, ultimately accelerating drug discovery.

Ideal for:

• Protein/RNA complexes
• Interaction and binding studies
• High order structure
• Interactomics
• Integrative structural biology
• Native MS
• HDX-MS
• XL-MS

Study ready quantitation with QC discipline for disease outcome insights

Select Clinical Research for study-ready solutions built to deliver consistent quantitative results under real world conditions. Learn how teams strengthen QC strategy, data integrity, and reproducible reporting so results remain trustworthy across time, sites, and sample—supporting studies in inherited disorders, cancer research, and the study of infectious diseases, while bringing the same rigor to forensic toxicology and anti-doping that confirm known/unknown drugs and find trace banned substances that answers real-world health questions.

Ideal for:

• Forensic toxicology
• Antidoping
• Clinical biomarker studies
• High throughput quantitation

Confident screening and quantitation for complex food and environmental matrices

Choose Environmental & Food Safety to focus on reliable workflows for screening and quantitation in challenging, real-world matrices. Explore approaches for contaminants, residues, and emerging analytes—designed to support high throughput monitoring and confident decision making.

Ideal for:

• Food and environmental testing
• PFAS in groundwater
• Residues and contaminants
• Emerging analytes
• Routine monitoring labs
• Persistent organic pollutants (POPs)

MS software solutions: Accelerating data-driven decisions

Learn how our software solutions support acquisition, processing, identification, quantitation, structural elucidation, and reporting from research through regulated workflows. With advanced AI/ML-driven capabilities, we enhance scalability, automation, and productivity, helping laboratories move confidently and efficiently from samples to actionable insights.

Ideal for:

• Proteomics & protein characterization
• Biopharmaceutical characterization
• Small molecule identification & unknown analysis
• Quantitative analysis for GxP-compliant and research labs
• Data review, visualization & reporting