Scientific Update Consulting provides specialist expert advice and ongoing professional education - servicing the chemistry needs of the pharmaceutical and fine chemicals industries.

Experience and Know-how

The consulting team has a substantial breadth and depth of experience and knowledge in chemical development and scale up and small scale manufacture in the pharmaceutical, fine chemicals and related industries. The consultants have all been heads of R&D departments in major pharmaceutical and fine chemical companies and have outstanding scientific pedigrees; they are available to impart their independent advice to you.

If you have any issue related to:

• organic chemical process research and development
• scale up and manufacturing of fine chemicals, intermediates and active pharmaceutical ingredients
• optimisation in organic chemistry
• pharmaceutical salt selection
• polymorphism and crystallisation
• good manufacturing practice and regulatory issues
• quality control, in-process control and process analytical technologies
• intellectual property issues related to processes
• project management, outsourcing, technology transfer and due diligence
• training

Scientific Update Consulting can help.

Led by Dr Trevor Laird, founder of Scientific Update LLP, the team which includes Dr Will Watson and Dr John Knight, are all highly regarded chemists and their pool of expert knowledge is just a phone call away.

For further information and to find out more about how their consulting services could benefit your company, please call +44 (0)1435 873062.

Just ask the Experts.

International Reputation and Reach

Scientific Update LLP operates a world-renowned business, organising conferences and training courses for industrial chemists and chemical engineers in chemical development and scale-up and many other specialist topics in and around organic chemistry.

With a mail list of over 25,000 people, we are known by the majority of chemistry departments in the worldwide pharmaceutical and chemical industries.

Scientific Update LLP was founded and is owned by Dr Trevor Laird (previously head of Process Development at SmithKline and French). Trevor is also Editor-in-Chief of the international scientific journal entitled Organic Process Research and Development (OPRD), published by the American Chemical Society, and is one of the world’s foremost experts in process chemistry.

Helping Industry, Government and Academia

Our industrial clients range across many sectors of the chemical industry, including flavour and fragrance, polymers and pharmaceuticals. Within the pharmaceutical sector, we have provided advice and service to small/emerging biotechs and virtual pharma companies through to big pharma and generics companies.

We have also assisted companies such as CROs, CMOs and technology companies in a more strategic sense, for instance helping to define the scope of their offerings.

In addition, our unique position in the process chemistry community has led to numerous contracts with governments and with universities.