About Us
Our aims :
- Support the fine chemical and pharmaceutical industry by working with companies to identify and suggest ways of significantly improving manufacturing processes impacting on cost, quality, productivity, waste and energy; using a team of experts and resources to invent (where necessary), understand and develop new technology that can be readily commercially applied.
- Sustain high-risk / high return projects by combining a critical mass of experts in chemistry and engineering and leveraging with industrial, public and academic resources.
- Link strongly academic creativity with industrial exploitation.
- Provide process testing and scale-up facilities for evaluating new processes, training and small scale manufacture.
- Train chemists and engineers in process development and manufacture, valuable skills required by industry.
Our core team of expert Chemists and Engineers:
- Organic chemists (Prof Philip Kocienski, Prof Stephen Marsden and Prof Chris Rayner) who design economic synthetic reactions and routes using better more sustainable reagents.
- Analysis, catalysis and process chemistry (Dr Richard Ansell, Prof John Blacker, Dr Paddy McGowan, Dr Xiaosong Wang) expert in improving process efficiency and optimising methodologies for synthesising target molecules and polymers.
- Reaction and Reactor Design. Two Chair announcements to be made shortly.
- Process systems, computational fluid design modelling, process intensification and environmental specialists (Dr Yulong Ding, Prof Mojtaba Ghadiri, Dr Nik Kapur, Dr Tariq Mahmud, Prof Paul Williams) who scale-up the developed processes for practical manufacture and control/remediate waste streams.
- Particle scientist and supramolcular assemblies(Dr Robert Hammond, Dr Michaele Hardie, Dr Xiaojun Lai, Prof Kevin Roberts) who study the formation and separation of solid-form API’s, and integrate their work with other departmental activities on safe and effective formulation.
- Analytics and separation scientists (Prof Rik Brydson, Prof Xue Wang) who characterise and control chemical and physical state and process conditions, together with product form and microstructure. .
- Enterprise and knowledge transfer expertise(Prof John Blacker) to define work programs, advise and facilitate commercialisation of project outcomes.