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CMAC Open Days 2026

Engage with MediForge
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The Hub brings together leading expertise across advanced manufacturing, digital modelling, automation, scale-up and sustainability to develop integrated solutions that strengthen the UK’s medicines manufacturing capability.

This project aims to revolutionise Chemistry Manufacture and Control (CMC) approaches through forging medicine development and advanced manufacturing seamlessly with digital technologies and enabling the future workforce to deliver practical, deployable innovations that improve productivity, resilience, sustainability and workforce capability — supporting a more agile, data-enabled and environmentally responsible manufacturing ecosystem.

Find out more about MediForge

What is MediForge?

MediForge is an EPSRC Future Manufacturing Research Hub dedicated to advancing the future of medicines manufacturing through Industry 5.0 principles.

MediForge welcomes engagement from industry partners who are interested in shaping the future of medicines manufacturing.

If you are interested in:

  • Influencing research direction

  • Testing emerging tools and frameworks

  • Contributing real-world challenges

  • Exploring collaboration opportunities

Register your interest and select the themes most relevant to you and your organisation

Register your interest
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How to engage with MediForge

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Agenda - MediForge

  • 1145–1205 Welcome and Overview
    Prof Alastair Florence, CMAC, University of Strathclyde
    AUD B&C

    1405–1705 CMAC Showcase
    Synthesis CMC DataFactory, Crystallisation Screening CMC DataFactory, Tableting CMC DataFactory, Dissolution CMC DataFactory, Drug Substance Testbed, Data and CPRI
    AUD A

    1705–1830 Poster Session

    • Poster 11: User-friendly Model-based Experimental Design via User Interfaces – Hikaru Jolliffe

    • Poster 23: Knowledge Graph–Based Semantic Data Fabric for Tabletting and Crystallisation – Tabbasum Naz

    • Poster 24: Artificial Intelligence–Assisted Zoning of Stirred Tank Crystallizers for Reduced-Order CFD–PBM Modelling

    • Poster 34: Improving Determination of Solubility and Dissolution Kinetics – Jenna Johnston

    • Poster 38: Development of a Modular Drug Substance Test Bed – Megan Fleming

    • Poster 42: An Automated Flow Reactor Platform for API Synthesis and Optimisation – Roisin O’Connell

    • Poster 46: Crystallisation Screening DataFactory: A Cyber-Physical System for Data-Driven QbDD – Martin Prostredny

    • Poster 65: Orchestrated DataFactories for Integrated Tablet Production and Dissolution Testing – Faisal Abbas

    • Poster 70: From Single Droplet to Tablet Disintegration: Investigating Water-Tablet Interactions – Mingrui Ma

  • 0935–1005 Talk
    Tbc
    AUD B&C

    1005–1025 Talks
    User-friendly Model-based Experimental Design via User Interfaces – Hikaru Jolliffe
    Accelerating Formulation Development for Pharmaceutical Tablets via Automated Sessile Drop Testing – Mingrui Ma
    AUD B&C

    1025–1055 Poster Session
    Same as Day 1

    1055–1205 CMAC Showcase
    Synthesis CMC DataFactory, Crystallisation Screening CMC DataFactory, Tableting CMC DataFactory, Dissolution CMC DataFactory, Drug Substance Testbed, Data and CPRI
    AUD A

    1205–1320 Poster Session
    Same as above

    1320–1440 Talk
    Knowledge Graph-Based Semantic Data Fabric for CMC – Tabbasum Naz
    AUD B&C

    1440–1600 CMAC Lab Tours
    Data and Digital including QbDD Workflows, Digital Crystallisation Screening and Tableting CMC DataFactories, Sustainability Dashboards, PharmaMV Dashboard, Knowledge Graph and Virtual Assistant

    TC624

    Lab tour including Crystallisation screening and tableting CMC DataFactories, drug substance microfactory testbed

    TC617 and TC814

  • 1500–1630 CMAC Lab Tours

Full Open Days agenda