NIST Forms Bizarre Isotope Metallomics Quality Club
Published Date: 9/4/2025
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NIST is starting a new group called the Isotope Metallomics Quality Assurance Program Consortium to help scientists improve how they measure isotopes in clinical and biological samples. This group will bring together experts to create better measurement tools, share data, and set standards. If you want to join, you’ll need to sign an agreement, and some special rules apply depending on your legal status.
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NIST Creates Isotope Measurement Consortium
NIST is establishing the Isotope Metallomics Quality Assurance Program (IMQAP) Consortium to bring stakeholders together to improve isotopic measurements of clinical and biological samples. The Consortium will work on better measurement tools, measurement quality assurance strategies, development of clinical/biological matrix reference materials, and collecting data to support best practices and standard methods.
Participation Requires CRADA Or Alternative Agreement
Participants in the Consortium must sign a Cooperative Research and Development Agreement (CRADA). Entities that are legally prohibited or not authorized to enter into a CRADA may, at NIST's discretion, be allowed to join under a different agreement with terms that may differ from the CRADA.
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