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SSPC provides the life sciences sector with a nationally distributed, research performing community that enables high impact, collaborative research between industry and academic partners.
SSPC is committed to translating its excellent science into impact through five societal goals: Sustainability, Small Molecule, Biologics, Health, Education and Public Engagement.
Sustainability
Small Molecule
Biologics
Health
Education & Public Engagement
Talent
SSPC nurtures a talent pipeline of high calibre scientists and engineers for the sector, through our internal PhD training programme and various CPD mechanisms available to our industry partners. SSPC offers a unique proposition through its industry placement programme and 63% of SSPC graduates go on to be employed in industry both nationally and globally.
Industry
Since its inception, SSPC has successfully collaborated with over 50 industry partners, composed of indigenous and foreign operations, whose size range from small to multi-national. Collectively, this demonstrates a strong track-record in delivering applied research that enables industry to solve challenges leading to the development of better medicine. SSPC has supported 54 industry projects since 2019.
Researchers
Economic Impact since 2013
Industry Partners
Jobs created in industry following FDI
Peer-Reviewed Publications
International Co-Authors in 48 countries across 6 continents
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Transition of Researchers to Industry
Education & Public Engagement Activities
Latest News
SSPC investigator Prof. Mike Zaworotko and team have discovered a new material that can ‘trap and store’ volatile gases
The research team, which includes international collaborators in Japan, the US and South Africa, have discovered a new class of porous materials or sorbents for trapping and storing volatile gases. The discovery has just been published in the world leading...
The National Crystal Growing Competition 2023 launched
Wednesday 25th Jan – Science Foundation Ireland research centres iCRAG, the SFI Research Centre for Applied Geosciences, and SSPC, the SFI Research Centre for Pharmaceuticals, have announced the 2023 National Crystal Growing Competition officially open. The...
SSPC 2022 Research Outputs
Check out SSPC’s snapshot of some of our outputs throughout 2022, that illustrate the centre effect through which SSPC’s high impact science is enhanced by increased national and international engagement.
SSPC Years in Review, and News Updates
View or download our latest news and research outputs.
SSPC’s world-leading Research Programme
Our unique and innovative culture of collaboration is helping the global pharmaceutical and biopharmaceutical industry to develop more environmentally sustainable methods for drug manufacturing; to increase the range of medicines available to the public and to reduce drug manufacturing costs. SSPC’s advanced research programme extends from Molecule, Materials and Medicine into the Manufacturing and Modelling space.
These themes focus on developing new methodologies for the asymmetric synthesis of APIs, molecules & methods for automated & in-flow generation of targeted drug hybrids & new therapeutic agents.
Advancing the understanding of single-component crystalline materials (SCCMs) and, especially, multi-component crystalline materials (MCCMs) in order to enable improved orally delivered drug products.
Optimising the development, production & use of safe, effective medicines with focus on poorly soluble drugs, personalized, age appropriate medicines & rational formulation approaches with predictive performance.
Enabling a disruptive change in manufacture of drug substances & drug products, through the development & implementation of continuous manufacturing, flow chemistry & end-to-end manufacturing methodologies.
























