Collaboration
University College Cork and Almac, a pharmaceutical contract research and manufacturing company based in Northern Ireland, have launched a collaboration in the field of solid state chemistry.
The partnership, mainly funded by the Science Foundation Ireland, is focused upon applying new technologies to elucidate 3D molecular structures from powder diffraction x-ray data. Current x-ray technology requires crystals in order to extract such structural information.
The research will be carried out between the Pharmaceutical Solids group of the Analytical and Biological Chemistry Research Facility at the university and the Almac Physical Sciences group. This team is joined by postdoctoral researcher László Fábián, who brings specialist expertise in powder diffraction.
“The UCC/Almac collaboration is strategic to the progression of our academic goals and will be of great benefit to the students of UCC, the research community and the Irish pharmaceutical sector as a whole,” said Anita Maguire, Professor of Pharmaceutical Chemistry and Director ABCRF, UCC.
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