Sustainability Case Studies
EPSRC-SFI joint project on Table Top Manufacturing of Tailored Nanosilica for Personalised Medicine [SiPM]
Prof. Vivek Ranade, Bernal Institute, University of Limerick and SSPC Manufacturing investigator received funding for an EPSRC-SFI joint project on Table Top Manufacturing of Tailored Nanosilica for Personalised Medicine [SiPM]. A collaboration between Siddharth V....
POTENTIAL, Platform Optimisation To Enable NanomaTerIAL safety assessment for rapid commercialisation
Challenge With the rapid development of nanomaterials, there is an increasing need for safety assessment in this field. In response to this challenge, POTENTIAL aims to revolutionise nanomaterial safety assessment. This project promises to bring a fresh approach to...
CATCH – derived from continuous biocatalysed chemical
The Challenge The pharmaceutical and fine chemical industry continues to innovate and as new chemical identities (NCEs) are selected, contract and development manufacturing organisations (CDMOs) like Almac need to have an armoury of technologies at their disposal to...
Modelling, Control and Applications of Hydrodynamic Cavitation Phenomena (CaviPRO)
Modelling, Control and Applications of Hydrodynamic Cavitation Phenomena (CaviPRO) Prof. Vivek Ranade, University of Limerick has been awarded €2.17 million in funding as part of the EU Doctoral Network programme for CaviPRO. Prof. Ranade, Bernal Chair of Process...
Innovative Mechanochemical Processes to synthesise green ACTIVE pharmaceutical ingredients
IMPACTIVE: Innovative Mechanochemical Processes to synthesise green ACTIVE pharmaceutical ingredients. Prof. Lidia Tajber, Trinity College Dublin and SSPC investigator is deputy coordinator on the €8M consortium project. The project aims to address the issue of...
Small Molecule Case Studies
EPSRC-SFI joint project on Table Top Manufacturing of Tailored Nanosilica for Personalised Medicine [SiPM]
Prof. Vivek Ranade, Bernal Institute, University of Limerick and SSPC Manufacturing investigator received funding for an EPSRC-SFI joint project on Table Top Manufacturing of Tailored Nanosilica for Personalised Medicine [SiPM]. A collaboration between Siddharth V....
Crystalline Drug Substances for Improved Medicines
Our research is aimed at the design and study of new solid-state forms of APIs. We are particularly interested in the application of sublimation as a solvent-free (i.e. green) method to control the polymorphism and crystal morphology and to obtain new cocrystals. We...
POTENTIAL, Platform Optimisation To Enable NanomaTerIAL safety assessment for rapid commercialisation
Challenge With the rapid development of nanomaterials, there is an increasing need for safety assessment in this field. In response to this challenge, POTENTIAL aims to revolutionise nanomaterial safety assessment. This project promises to bring a fresh approach to...
CATCH – derived from continuous biocatalysed chemical
The Challenge The pharmaceutical and fine chemical industry continues to innovate and as new chemical identities (NCEs) are selected, contract and development manufacturing organisations (CDMOs) like Almac need to have an armoury of technologies at their disposal to...
ArrayPatch: A new horizon for Intradermal Drug Delivery
This project is funded by Enterprise Ireland under the Commercialisation Fund programme (CF-2022-1974I & CF-2020-1948I) and is running at the School of Pharmacy, University College Cork. Team: Dr Waleed Faisal (project lead), Dr Mark Ledwidge (Business...
Biologics Case Studies
POTENTIAL, Platform Optimisation To Enable NanomaTerIAL safety assessment for rapid commercialisation
Challenge With the rapid development of nanomaterials, there is an increasing need for safety assessment in this field. In response to this challenge, POTENTIAL aims to revolutionise nanomaterial safety assessment. This project promises to bring a fresh approach to...
OptiViVax, Optimising a High Efficacy Vaccine for Plasmodium Vivax Malaria
Challenge Plasmodium vivax is the most widespread human malaria-causing pathogen with 2.5 billion people living at risk in Africa, South America, Oceania, and Asia. Over the next 5 years, OptiViVax, a newly created consortium across academia and industry, will build...
AUTOPILOT: Automated High-Throughput Analysis of Cellular Phenotyping
The SFI Research Infrastructure Programme facilitates broad usage across Ireland to encourage partnerships and collaboration between different cohorts of researchers in Ireland; for example, between universities, technological universities, Institutes of Technology,...
Long Acting Medicines for Complex Therapeutics Needed Now
LongActNow is a Marie Skłodowska-Curie Action (MSCA) led by a consortium of international academic and industrial centres at: University of Limerick (UL), SSPC, Trinity College Dublin (TCD), TU Dortmund University (TUD) & The Janssen Pharmaceutical Companies of...
Scale-up Systems working with SSPC
The purpose of the project To investigate the hydrodynamics of commonly used lab-scale reactor systems under typical operating conditions. Predictions of mixing using traditional chemical engineering relationships become more difficult as the scale of operation...
Health
Advanced Characterisation of Hydrogels – Selio Medical
Lung cancer is leading cause of cancer death worldwide and lung biopsy is the gold standard method of diagnosis. Approximately, 1 in 3 patients undergoing a lung biopsy suffer from a collapsed lung, known as pneumothorax. Irish start-up Selio Medical has developed a...
EPSRC-SFI joint project on Table Top Manufacturing of Tailored Nanosilica for Personalised Medicine [SiPM]
Prof. Vivek Ranade, Bernal Institute, University of Limerick and SSPC Manufacturing investigator received funding for an EPSRC-SFI joint project on Table Top Manufacturing of Tailored Nanosilica for Personalised Medicine [SiPM]. A collaboration between Siddharth V....
Crystalline Drug Substances for Improved Medicines
Our research is aimed at the design and study of new solid-state forms of APIs. We are particularly interested in the application of sublimation as a solvent-free (i.e. green) method to control the polymorphism and crystal morphology and to obtain new cocrystals. We...
OptiViVax, Optimising a High Efficacy Vaccine for Plasmodium Vivax Malaria
Challenge Plasmodium vivax is the most widespread human malaria-causing pathogen with 2.5 billion people living at risk in Africa, South America, Oceania, and Asia. Over the next 5 years, OptiViVax, a newly created consortium across academia and industry, will build...
ArrayPatch: A new horizon for Intradermal Drug Delivery
This project is funded by Enterprise Ireland under the Commercialisation Fund programme (CF-2022-1974I & CF-2020-1948I) and is running at the School of Pharmacy, University College Cork. Team: Dr Waleed Faisal (project lead), Dr Mark Ledwidge (Business...
Education & Public Engagement
TEMI: Teaching Enquiry with Mysteries Incorporated
Supporting actions on Innovation in the classroom: teacher training on enquiry based teaching methods on a large scale in Europe (Grant agreement ID: 321403) Partners Università degli Studi di Milano, (Marina Carpineti and Marco Giliberti), Universitaet Bremen (Ingo...
SSPC STEM Matters
STEM Matters is an 8-page monthly mini-mag that profiles SFI research centres. The project has been co-designed by SSPC and Ireland's award-winning publisher of curriculum-linked monthly news magazines for primary schools, News Mag Media. STEM Matters is a free...
SSPC Medicine Maker Workshop
Medicine Maker is a hands-on public engagement workshop that provides audiences with the opportunity to “manufacture” and inspect the quality of proxy or “dummy” medicine through guided inquiry. Formal and informal feedback from participants indicates that the...
SSPC Transition Year (TY) Work Experience Week
The SSPC Transition Year (TY) Work Experience Programme ran twice during 2019, in April and December. Each weeklong programme welcomed a cohort of TY students (aged 15-16 years) to experience science at SSPC and the University of Limerick in an authentic and engaging...
Exploring the Values that Inform STEM Curricula Development and Selection in the Junior Cycle
Team: Joan Costello – PhD Researcher, Dr Orla McCormack, Senior Lecturer in Education, School of Education, Education and Health Sciences (EHS), University of Limerick (UL) – Principal Investigator, Dr Sarah Hayes, Chief Operating Officer, SSPC. EPI*STEM, (UL) - PhD...