Researcher wins prestigious poster prize

Post Doctoral Researcher Dr Bilal Ahmed has won 1st place for his poster at the Continuous Manufacturing and Advanced Crystallisation (CMAC) Virtual Open Day.

Bilal Ahmed

EPSRC Future CMAC Research Hub is an international hub for excellence for medicines manufacturing research, comprising of 7 leading UK Universities, 8 global pharmaceutical partners and 17 technology companies. CMAC’s goal is to enable the pharmaceutical and chemical industries to deliver high quality products in a more economical, efficient, and sustainable manner, by advanced continuous manufacturing. 

Members of the Department  Dr Bilal Ahmed (PDRA), Jonathan Tew (PhD), Victoria Kitching (PhD),and Dr Rachel Smith (Academic) attend CMAC’s Virtual Open Day and presented their ongoing work on spherical agglomeration in the form of posters, presentations and a demo video.   This Open Day gave an overview of the current UK Medicines Manufacturing Landscape and also covered the CMAC Hub Research Programme. 

Dr Ahmed’s poster won 1st place for the PDRA Poster Prize. The title of the poster was:

"Spherical Agglomeration:Workflow Development and Process Modelling"

Bilal commented on his win:

"I was very pleased to win the poster prize amongst very talented peers across several partner universities. More importantly, I'm thrilled to see our ongoing research within spherical agglomeration gaining much attraction and interest from the scientific community and as a potential emerging application for the pharmaceutical industry"

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