The 2025 AOAC INTERNATIONAL Annual Meeting & Exposition will be held from August 23 to 28, 2025, at the Town and Country Resort in San Diego, California, USA.
The AOAC Annual Meeting & Exposition provides unparalleled professional development, networking, and collaboration in methods-based science.
This multi-faceted “idea incubator” focuses on regulatory changes and emerging food safety issues. A plenary and two breakout sessions feature thought-provoking ideas to identify and meet analytical needs.
Dr. Carlito B. Lebrilla is a Distinguished Professor at the University of California, Davis, in the Department of Chemistry and Biochemistry and Molecular Medicine in the School of Medicine. He received his BS degree from the University of California, Irvine, and PhD from the University of California, Berkeley. He was an Alexander von Humboldt and a NSF-NATO Fellow at the Technical University in Berlin. He was also selected as a UC President’s Fellow before starting at UC Davis. He has served as Chair of the Chemistry Department. His research is in Analytical Chemistry focused on mass spectrometry with applications to clinical glycomics and biofunctional food. He has co-founded several start-ups in the areas of bioactive foods and disease biomarkers that has raised collectively over $500M in funding. He has published nearly 500 peer-reviewed papers and has been selected as a Fellow of the AAAS. He has been awarded the Field and Franklin Medal for outstanding contributions to mass spectrometry, MCP Lectureship in Glycobiology, UCD Outstanding Researcher Award and UCD Innovator Award. He is also Co-Chief Editor of Mass Spectrometry Reviews and has been on the editorial board of Molecular and Cellular Proteomics, Glycobiology, Mass Spectrometry Reviews, Journal of American Society for Mass Spectrometry, European Mass Spectrometry, and International Journal of Mass Spectrometry. He is currently the VP of Programs and the President-Elect for the American Society of Mass Spectrometry.
Dr. Lebrilla will speak on “Advancing Food Analysis with Multi-Omics Approaches for Guiding Product Formulation, Clinical Trials, Policy Development, and Improving AI” (see full abstract) on Monday, August 25, 2025, at 8:00 AM.
Dr. Eric Verdon is the recipient of the 2025 Harvey W. Wiley Award, the Association’s highest honor for lifetime scientific achievement. Dr. Eric Verdon is the head of the European Union Reference Laboratory (EU-RL) for Antibiotic Veterinary and Dye Residues in Food from Animal Origin. He also heads up the French national reference laboratory at ANSES, the French Agency for Food, Environmental, and Occupational Health Safety.
