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CMAC, a World Leading Centre for Medicines Manufacturing Research, Skills, Facilities and Translation.

 
 
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Transforming Medicines Development, Manufacture & Supply

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Research

Industrially relevant research delivered by a multidisciplinary and collaborative academic team.

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Skills Development

A vibrant world-class, multi-disciplinary PhD & MSc training programmes that will equip graduates with leading edge skills in pioneering continuous processes.

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Award Winning Facilities

Comprehensive suite of continuous processing, process analysis, and characterisation equipment housed in the Technology and Innovation Centre at Strathclyde.

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Translation to Industry

The demand-led manufacturing research scope of the Centre was co-created with our industry partners.

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Innovative Medicines Manufacturing

MicroFactories and Digital Twins

CMAC’s vision to transform medicines manufacturing requires development of innovative, modular and integrated continuous manufacturing processes for drug substance and drug product.

End-to-end modular lab scale microfactories are being developed to meet this need, with immersive augmented reality and virtual reality solutions providing exciting tools that enable sustainable development of ready to use technologies.

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New centre of excellence for regulation to accelerate digital adoption to ensure faster and safer delivery of medicines to patients
New centre of excellence for regulation to accelerate digital adoption to ensure faster and safer delivery of medicines to patients

A new £1m research project to realise the transformative potential of digital technologies like artificial intelligence (AI) in medicines development and manufacturing has been announced.

The Centre of Excellence in Regulatory Science and Innovation (CERSI) project aims to advance regulatory processes by integrating cutting-edge digital technologies.

CMAC welcomes John Mack as Tier 2 Industry Board representative
CMAC welcomes John Mack as Tier 2 Industry Board representative

CMAC has appointed John Mack as a new member of its Industry Board. Representing CMAC’s Tier 2 membership, John’s role will enhance the Tier 2 community's connection to CMAC’s activities, ensuring the centre stays at the forefront of manufacturing advancements and continues to meet the evolving needs of its members.

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Analytical Scientist for Predictive Dissolution and Stability
Analytical Scientist for Predictive Dissolution and Stability

The main duties of the post will be to carry out laboratory characterisation and modelling activities of relevant pharmaceutical solid materials, primarily pharmaceutical tablets. The main activities will hinge on characterisation of solid properties to enable parameterisation of predictive models, e.g. dissolution and stability models

CMAC Administrator
CMAC Administrator

The successful applicant will lead administration across various CMAC programmes and industry engagement activities working closely with the broader CMAC operational team and academics to ensure the effective delivery of CMAC programmes.