Solid State Pharmaceutical Cluster
Roche Ireland is an Industry Partner in the Solid State Pharmaceutical Cluster
A huge part of the Irish pharmaceutical industry involves producing the active ingredients for tablets in powder form, and the research of this cluster by academic and industrial scientists and engineers focuses on how best to do this.
The proposed Solid State Pharmaceuticals Cluster intends to provide the necessary skill set to comprehensively investigate pharmaceutical solids by bringing together complementary academic and industrial groupings from the disciplines of Chemistry, Pharmaceutics, Pharmaceutical Technology, Chemical Engineering and Mechanical Engineering. These groups have expertise in process modelling and design, scale-up, computational fluid dynamics, in situ solution and solid-phase monitoring, crystallography and powder characterisation.