CEO of Department for International Trade (Life Sciences), and his team visited CMAC with colleagues from Scottish Development International (SDI)
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Hosted by 'EPSRC Centre for Innovative Manufacturing in Continuous Manufacturing and Crystallisation (CMAC)' at The University of Strathclyde, the 4th Winter Process Conference was held in TIC, Glasgow from 12-14 Dec 2017
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On Monday 5th December, the funding of the CMAC Future Hub was announced formally. The Rt. Hon. Jo Johnson MP, Minister of State for Universities, Science, Research and Innovation, announced the major investment from government in six new EPSRC Future Manufacturing Research Hubs.
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EPSRC today have announced six new £10 million research hubs including the new CMAC Future Hub.
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• Scots university is one of six in UK to share government funding to improve the UK’s manufacturing capability
• Partnership involves 18 of world’s leading pharmaceutical, chemical and food companies and 19 key technology firms
• Key part of the government’s Industrial Strategy to further UK economic growth

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This year’s CMAC annual review has been published.
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CMAC has been in the press recently with CMAC Industrial Director Craig Johnston’s interview by Gareth MacDonald posted on in- pharmatechnologist.com focusing on adoption of continuous manufacturing in Pharmaceuticals, and a report on the Powerhouse events in conjunction with PwC featuring an article by Craig on how our work in CMAC can help grow the life sciences business sector in Scotland.
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CMAC’s Dr Thomas McGlone has been awarded an RSC Inspirational Committee award for chairing the 4th Early Career Symposium (ECS) for chemists earlier this year. The award was presented by Professor John Holman (RSC president) last week in Belfast during the annual RSC General Assembly Award Ceremony where Thomas was joined by Sian Sloan-Dennison (Bionano) and additional ECS committee members from around the UK.
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Explorathon ’16 took place across Scotland on 30th September 2016. As part of this, a group of CMAC researchers visited Aultmore Primary School in Glasgow to give a series of demos on crystallisation and then exhibited at the Explorathon Extravaganza at Glasgow Science Centre in the evening.
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Congratulations to Dr Ian Houson, CMAC Technical Project Manager who received a Strathclyde Medal to recognise people who have made an important contribution to the Universityof Strathclyde values in their work, relationships and achievements.
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Congratulations to CMAC PhD researcher Vaclav Svoboda who is a category winner at this year’s University of Strathclyde Images of Research Competition. Vaclav who is in Professor Jan Sefcik’s group, has won the “Innovative Engineering” category for his image “Hidden Colours of Crystallisation”.
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Sir Andrew Witty, chief executive officer (CEO) of GlaxoSmithKline visited the CMAC National Facility on Monday 22nd Feb 2016. There was presentations and discussions on the research, skills, facilities and key industry translation activities followed by a tour of the facilities. He was accompanied by the Principal of University of Strathclyde Professor Sir Jim McDonald, Scottish Enterprise and senior representatives from GSK. Sir Andrew and his team were very complimentary and were impressed by the range of activities and people they met. He commented that CMAC was an exemplar of critical mass research activities.
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ISPE's Facility of the Year Awards honor the top pharmaceutical facilities for displaying innovation and creativity in manufacturing facilities serving the regulated healthcare industry.
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CMAC recently attended the launch of the UK Manufacturing Review 2015-2016.
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Industry Director Craig Johnston was part of the team that won a Strathclyde Enterprise award
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CMAC Annual Review 2014-2015 Online
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The REMEDIES (RE-configuring MEDIcines End-to-end Supply) project has accelerated into its next phase following the approval of £11.2m of government funding. The project is further strengthened by an £11m contribution from industry, matching the figure raised through Round 4 of the Advanced Manufacturing Supply Chain Initiative (AMSCI).
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On 3rd July 2015, Her majesty the Queen Opened the TIC Building at University of Strathclyde. During her visit, the Queen visited the CMAC Labs and was introduce to key people and shown key items of equipment by Industry Director Professor Alastair Florence.
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Season's Greetings
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Scotland's First Minister Nicola Sturgeon met with CMAC researchers at the TIC opening event hosted by Principle Professor Sir Jim McDonald.
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CMAC has been nominated and short-listed for a Scottish Enterprise Life Sciences Award in the ‘Innovation Award’ category. There are three short-listed finalists in each category, selected by a judging panel which took in November 2014. The winners will be announced at the Scottish Life Sciences Annual Dinner in February 2015. The awards are presented to recognise excellence in companies and individuals who are making a significant contribution to the industry.
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CMAC has been awarded circa $1m from the SAVI seed fund including £248K from EPSRC over 3years to support the International Institute for Advanced Pharmaceutical Manufacturing. This is a joint US – UK institute that will bring together world-leading academic expertise to deliver new end-to-end continuous manufacturing capabilities that will transform global supply chain for medicines.
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On 20th-21st May 2014, CMAC co-hosted the first International Symposium on Continuous Manufacturing of Pharmaceuticals at MIT, US. This prestigious event was attended by world leaders in continuous processing, with pharmaceutical end users, suppliers, regulators and academics who discussed accelerating adoption of continuous manufacturing for both small molecules and biological products. The key outputs of the meeting were 8 white papers which are due to be published shortly the Journal of Pharmaceutical Science. The final drafts can be found on the website.
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The Centre has launched a new Doctoral Training Centre in collaboration with Nanyang Technical University (NTU) Singapore. This graduate training scheme is in addition to the Centre's national EPSRC Doctoral Training Centre (DTC) and is unique in that all students involved will benefit from facilities and training at both the University of Strathclyde and NTU.
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CMAC recently hosted the nation's 3rd EPSRC Manufacturing the Future Conference at Glasgow Science Centre, chaired by Professor Alastair Florence, Academic Director of CMAC. The conference was a huge success with almost 400 delegates and has received outstanding feedback from all who attended.

The annual conference provides a national forum for UK manufacturing research community to share experience, progress and challenges in progressing UK manufacturing. The event also provided a platform for early career researchers to showcase their excellent contributions to the manufacturing research community and contribute to debate on how to move forward.
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The MOPPs project provided a case study for the Flexible Manufacturing Special Interest Group Report on the current innovation landscape provided in October 2014. This report has been the main driver behind InnovateUK’s new £6million call in the Flexible Manufacturing Competition for funding.
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Rt Hon Dr Vince Cable MP, Secretary of State for Business, Innovation and Skills visited the EPSRC Centre for Innovative Manufacturing in Continuous Manufacturing and Crystallisation (CMAC) on Wednesday 8th January to open Phase 1 of the UK Research Partnership Investment Fund for Pharmaceutical Research at the University of Strathclyde.
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Cheaper medicines will be available – and new drugs developed more quickly – following a multi-million pound research project led by the University of Strathclyde.
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Our Centre's first Annual Review has now been released.

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The centre's first cohort of DTC students commenced their PhD journey with their DTC induction week on 22nd October 2012 at the University of Strathclyde.
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1st annual Centre Open Day - 13th September 2012. Programme includes academic speakers, industry perspectives, student posters, technology company exhibitions.
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