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3 CMC Challenges That Can Derail Your Programme

Rob Crook, our Director of Chemical Science, explores the 3 CMC Challenges that can derail your programme's success, along with strategies on how you can overcome scale-up risks, complexity, and speed-vs-strategy pitfalls.

Feb 18th 2025 By Rob Crook
Metal Control Strategy in Drug Development: The Importance of Getting It Right

Our Director of Analytical Science, Sam Whitmarsh, and our Director of Chemical Science, Rob Crook describe CatSci's robust metal control strategies and workflows that ensure alignment with the ICHQ3D requirements and ultimately patient safety.

Apr 3rd 2024 By Rob CrookSam Whitmarsh
What Makes a Good Crystallisation Process?

Our Director of Material Sciences, Dr Robert Dennehy, gives his expert opinion on what makes a good crystallisation process.

May 10th 2023 By Robert Dennehy
CatSci and LabLinks: Voice Activated Digital Assistant In The Lab 

On December 13th, CatSci and LabLinks hosted a free webinar on Voice Activated Digital Assistants in the Lab. Dr Sam Whitmarsh, our Director of Digital Transformation, offers a summary of the event here.

Feb 28th 2023 By Sam Whitmarsh
CatSci and LabLinks: Computer Aided Retrosynthesis Webinar

On October 27th 2022, CatSci & LabLinks ran a Computer Aided Retrosynthesis (CAR) webinar. Dr Sam Whitmarsh, our Director of Digital Transformation, offers a summary of the event here.

Feb 16th 2023 By Sam Whitmarsh
CatSci Celebrates International Day of Women In STEM

11th February is International Day of Women In Science, so we wanted to celebrate some of the women on the CatSci team.

Feb 10th 2023
CatSci’s Commitment to our Team’s Career Development

CatSci is dedicated to the personal growth of our employees.

Oct 6th 2022
CatSci Enjoy CatFest – A Summer Celebration of CatSci

Last Thursday, the CatSci team enjoyed a summer celebration, CatFest. This was a CatSci-style festival to celebrate the hard work of our fantastic team.

Sep 23rd 2022
CatSci’s Commitment to Diversity, Equality and Inclusion

CatSci is committed to ensuring diversity, inclusivity and equality run through every aspect of the business.

Jul 8th 2022
CatSci’s Commitment to Wellbeing

CatSci is dedicated to supporting our employees in any way we can as we value people as an essential and precious resource.

Jul 8th 2022
CatSci’s Commitment To The LGBTQ+ Community

CatSci is committed to ensuring diversity, inclusivity and equality run through every aspect of the business, and that includes our dedication to our LGBTQ+ colleagues and the wider community.

Jun 30th 2022
Choosing the Right Technique to Increase Poor Drug Solubility in Solid Oral Dosage Formulations

Whilst good solubility is a target property in many drug discovery programs, a balance is often struck between solubility and potential efficacy which means that a poorly soluble molecule may need to be progressed.

Apr 7th 2022 By Robert Dennehy
CatSci Green HR Processes – A Conversation With Seb York

We spoke to Seb York to ask him about what CatSci does internally to be more eco-friendly within our HR processes.

Jan 28th 2022
Careers at CatSci Part 7: Charlotte Dalton & Lloyd Murfin

A conversation with Dr Charlotte Dalton & Dr Lloyd Murfin

Jan 24th 2022
CatSci Sponsor LabLinks Event – Application of Digital Tools to Synthesis

On June 17 2021, CatSci sponsored a LabLinks event on the Application of Digital Tools to Synthesis. Dr Alan Steven, Senior Principal Scientist at CatSci, offers a summary of the event here.

Nov 25th 2021 By Alan Steven
What Does The Next Decade of Drug Development Hold?

We spoke to some of the CatSci directors to ask them about the past 10 years of drug development, and what they think the next decade has in store...

Nov 21st 2021 By Ross T. BurnAlan StevenDuncan ThompsonNigel RichardsonRobert DennehySimon N. G. Tyler
Careers at CatSci Part 6: Maks Jevglevkis & Julia Collier

A conversation with Dr Maks Jevglevkis & Julia Collier.

Nov 16th 2021
Chemistry Internship at CatSci

We speak to Plamedi, who's recently completed a Chemistry Internship at CatSci. Find out all about her experience here...

Nov 2nd 2021
Careers at CatSci Part 5: Sofia Papadouli & Duncan Thompson

A Conversation with Dr Sofia Papadouli & Duncan Thompson.

Oct 11th 2021
Seeding: A Simple but Effective Method for Crystallisation Control

Seeding is probably the most common technique for controlling the solid state and physical properties attributes of a drug molecule. But what needs to be considered when using seed crystals?

Aug 25th 2021 By Robert Dennehy
Careers at CatSci Part 4: Jas Douville & Seb York

For our next Careers at CatSci blog, we spoke with two more of our team members, Dr Jas Douville and Seb York.

Aug 20th 2021
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