Waters Corporation has won the prestigious 2007 Pittcon Editors Gold Award for the best new product. In this year, it was the Waters Synapt High Definition Mass Spectrometry System. The instrument made its debut in front of more than 20,000 analytical scientists and corporate executives attending Pittcon. Used in small molecule research, protein characterisation, metabolite identification and bio-pharmaceutical applications the Synapt HDMS system is the first mass spectrometer of its kind to combine high efficiency, ion mobility based, measurements and separations with high performance quadrupole, time-of-flight mass spectrometry.