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CENTRE OF EXCELLENCE IN SUSTAINABLE PHARMACEUTICAL ENGINEERING & MANUFACTURING

A world prepared to deliver personalised care to patients in a fast, lean and flexible way.

Our mission; to be the Centre of Excellence in Europe for end-to-end integrated pharmaceutical manufacturability of tomorrowโ€™s medicines enabling sustainable innovation in drug substance and drug product production

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Focus areas

The Centre of Excellence in Sustainable Pharmaceutical Engineering & Manufacturing (CESPE) is a multidisciplinary innovation accelerator focusing on the sustainable development, design and optimisation of drug substance and drug product production platforms.

Its core labs and offices are located at Ghent University:

  • Faculty of Pharmaceutical Sciences
  • Faculty of Bioscience Engineering
  • Faculty of Engineering and Architecture
  • Faculty of Sciences
  • Faculty of Medicine and Health Sciences

Through integration of expertise from a variety of research groups, CESPE aims at providing emerging production technologies to manufacture the medicines of the future in a sustainable and agile way.

Core focus areas within CESPE are value chain driven:

  • Chemical, biological and ATMP process and production technology (drug substance)
  • Pharmaceutical process and production technology (drug product)

Crosscutting focus areas, enabling the integration of core areas:

  • Data sciences, modelling and control
  • Analytical technology and characterization
  • Sustainable systems engineering and design
  • Machineries, automation and factory logistics

Strategic activities

Connect

Connect and inform stakeholders through community building

Talent & Skills

Talent ready to tackle challenges within an industry in transition

Innovate

Transformation toward the pharmaceutical industry of tomorrow through technology innovation

Validate

Plug & play GMP-like open innovation lab and testing facility

Team

CESPE RESEARCH GROUPS

CESPE INDUSTRIAL MEMBERS