
Sustainability Case Studies
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 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. Juan Herrera...
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...
Modelling of Multi-Phase Transport Processes to enable automation in manufacturing
The Challenge The MOMEnTUM Spoke project is centred along diagnostic themes in specific areas of process modelling to enable control and automation within “substance” processing. The manufacture of pharmaceutics, biopharmaceutics, and chemical products is complex and...
De Souza Process – Pregabalin: Transformed Crystallization
The Challenge and background The recrystallization of Pregabalin in Isopropyl Alcohol (IPA) and Water is complex and does not follow a normal linear relationship. Pfizer circumvented this problem by elaborate azeotropic distillations to change solvent ratios post...

Small Molecule Case Studies
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...
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,...
Microcrystalline cellulose crystallinity
Investigating relationships between microcrystalline cellulose crystallinity and moisture sorption capacity McCrystal is a free-access calculator of the crystallinity index of microcrystalline cellulose (MCC) from Raman spectral data. McCrystal also performs spectral...
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...

Biologics Case Studies
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...
Modelling of Multi-Phase Transport Processes to enable automation in manufacturing
The Challenge The MOMEnTUM Spoke project is centred along diagnostic themes in specific areas of process modelling to enable control and automation within “substance” processing. The manufacture of pharmaceutics, biopharmaceutics, and chemical products is complex and...

Health
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,...
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...
Confirming chemical in some vaping devices generates toxic gas
The Challenge Almost 3,000 cases of vaping-related lung illness have been reported in the US, with 68 confirmed deaths in 29 states. The US Centers for Disease Control and Prevention have found the vitamin E acetate was strongly linked to the outbreak. However, some...

Education & Public Engagement
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