UCD School of Chemical & Bioprocess Engineering

APC Ltd, a new pharmaceutical research and technologies company, has won the NovaUCD 2011 Start-Up Award after being declared overall winner of the 16th NovaUCD Campus Company Development Programme.

APC provides pharmaceutical processing technologies and customised solutions to pharmaceutical companies that require the delivery of their medicines to the global market in a lean, reliable and robust manner. APC’s unique solutions allow its clients to reduce the risk, cost and time to market for new and existing pharmaceutical medicines.

APC, which plans to create 20 predominantly high skill jobs within the next two-years, was also presented with a prize fund worth €17,500.

The company, co-founded earlier this year by Professor Brian Glennon and Dr Mark Barrett as a spin-out from UCD’s School of Chemical and Bioprocess Engineering, already includes many of the top 10 pharmaceutical companies in the world on its client list.

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