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SSPC Research: Discover our impacts
Sustainability Case Studies

Sustainability Case Studies

Solid-Phase Synthesis of Peptides and Conjugates

Lead Solid Phase Peptide Synthesis (SPPS) is best positioned to meet the need for synthetic peptides, which represent one of the fastest growing classes of new drugs. However, its sustainability on an industrial scale is threatened by its reliance on organic solvents...

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Small Molecule Case Studies

Small Molecule 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,...

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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...

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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...

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Biologics Case Studies

Biologics Case Studies

Health

Health

Developing novel applications of Hexafrass

IP Development Hexafly Biotech signed the licence agreement with Maynooth University (Professor Kevin Kavanagh) to collaborate and commercialise the know how and outputs of an SSPC – funded project to develop novel applications of Hexafrass. The application of...

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Crystalline Drug Substances for Improved Medicines

The research 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...

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