Sustainability Case Studies
US-Ireland Centre-to-Centre nanoparticle partnership
The US-Ireland Centre-to-Centre Partnership: Partnership in Continuous Manufacturing for Nano-based Drug Products (C2C) Project 1 leads: Luis Padrela, Kevin Ryan, University of Limerick, Rohit Ramachanddran, Rutgers Project 2 leads: Kieran Hodnett, Sarah Hudson,...
EPSRC-SFI Centre for Doctoral Training (CDT) in Transformative Pharmaceutical Technologies
EPSRC-SFI Centre for Doctoral Training (CDT) in Transformative Pharmaceutical Technologies. The CDT is funded through a partnership between the Engineering and Physical Sciences Research Council (EPSRC) in the UK, and Science Foundation Ireland. Website:...
Multi-Product Resin Reuse for Biopharmaceutical Manufacturing
SSPC are working with Pfizer, Eli Lilly, Janssen, BMS and MSD to address the global protein A resin shortage on a project led by Prof. Sarah Hudson, University of Limerick. Prof. Hudson and her team will investigate the multi-product use of a resin in downstream...
RACE: Raw Communications and Engagement
Researchers: Dr Sarah Hayes, Martin McHugh and Dr Aimee Stapleton, SSPC, University of Limerick. Prof. Felix Ho and Prof. Daniel Brandell, Uppsala University. Dr Paul McCrory, Prof. Jarkko Ketolainen and Prof. Ossi Korhonen, University of Eastern Finland and Prof....
Cyanide-free cyanation reactions in continuous flow mode
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 be able to...
Small Molecule Case Studies
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...
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,...
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...
NanoComp: A Radical Innovation in Formulation Technology & Particle Engineering
NanoComp researchers: Dr Samira Kaissi, Commercial lead, Dr Ajay Kumar, Technical Lead Scientist and Dr Promita Bhattacharjee, Biology Lead Scientist. NanoComp Advisors: Prof. Kieran Hodnett, Project Contributor/Advisor, Prof. Ake Rasmusen, Project...
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...
Biologics Case Studies
EPSRC-SFI Centre for Doctoral Training (CDT) in Transformative Pharmaceutical Technologies
EPSRC-SFI Centre for Doctoral Training (CDT) in Transformative Pharmaceutical Technologies. The CDT is funded through a partnership between the Engineering and Physical Sciences Research Council (EPSRC) in the UK, and Science Foundation Ireland. Website:...
ClickGene: Development of next-generation gene silencing therapeutics and epigenetic DNA probes
The Horizon 2020 Innovative Training Network (ITN) ClickGene was a research project in the field of click chemistry and gene therapy. The modification, activation, modulation, and repression of DNA functional domains brought an overwhelming potential for human health...
Improving the efficiency of biotherapeutic production
Proteomic and Post-translational modification characterisation of recombinant Chinese hamster ovary (CHO) cells to improve the efficiency of biotherapeutic production Paula Meleady's research is based on the ‘Proteomic and Post-translational modification...
Multi-Product Resin Reuse for Biopharmaceutical Manufacturing
SSPC are working with Pfizer, Eli Lilly, Janssen, BMS and MSD to address the global protein A resin shortage on a project led by Prof. Sarah Hudson, University of Limerick. Prof. Hudson and her team will investigate the multi-product use of a resin in downstream...
Advanced Biopharmaceutical Technologies Spokes Project
Background This project was a collaboration between 7 of the leading Biopharmaceutical companies in Ireland Allergan, Biomarin, Eli Lilly, Janssen, MSD, Pfizer, Sanofi-Genzyme and two of Ireland’s leading pharmaceutical research Centres SSPC and National Institute for...
Health
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...
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...
US-Ireland Centre-to-Centre nanoparticle partnership
The US-Ireland Centre-to-Centre Partnership: Partnership in Continuous Manufacturing for Nano-based Drug Products (C2C) Project 1 leads: Luis Padrela, Kevin Ryan, University of Limerick, Rohit Ramachanddran, Rutgers Project 2 leads: Kieran Hodnett, Sarah Hudson,...
EPSRC-SFI Centre for Doctoral Training (CDT) in Transformative Pharmaceutical Technologies
EPSRC-SFI Centre for Doctoral Training (CDT) in Transformative Pharmaceutical Technologies. The CDT is funded through a partnership between the Engineering and Physical Sciences Research Council (EPSRC) in the UK, and Science Foundation Ireland. Website:...
Nature-ETN Nucleic Acids for Future Gene Editing, Immunotherapy and Epigenetic Sequence Modification
Nature–ETN: Nucleic Acids for Future Gene Editing, Immunotherapy and Epigenetic Sequence Modification Website: https://www.nature-etn.eu/ Budget: €4.04M Challenge: Nucleic acid (NA) therapeutics are expected to yield major advances in the treatment of human diseases,...
Education & Public Engagement
ARTIST: Research innovating science teaching
ARTIST the 3-year project funded by Erasmus+ Action Research To Innovate Science Teaching with partners: BT Ireland, Universität Bremen, Ilia State University, Alpen-Adria-Universität, University of Limerick, Gazi Universitesi, Batumi Shota Rustaveli State University,...
RACE: Raw Communications and Engagement
Researchers: Dr Sarah Hayes, Martin McHugh and Dr Aimee Stapleton, SSPC, University of Limerick. Prof. Felix Ho and Prof. Daniel Brandell, Uppsala University. Dr Paul McCrory, Prof. Jarkko Ketolainen and Prof. Ossi Korhonen, University of Eastern Finland and Prof....
‘A Day in Life of a Scientist’ highlighting the everyday lives of our scientists
The Campaign The ‘A Day in Life of a Scientist’ Campaign uses point of view (POV) video to give an insight into the everyday lives of SSPC scientists and researchers. Using GoPros, our scientists captured their daily lives from morning until night. The importance of...