Overview
Our team in Edinburgh offers world-class solid form screening programs, including salt screening, polymorph screening, co-crystal screening, crystallization screening, and further specialized screening activities. In addition, we have an industry-leading crystallization process development team with extensive experience in the scale-up of crystallization processes from lab to plant, providing robust crystallizations for further manufacturing.
Facility Details
- Extensive solid form screening
- Crystallization process development:
- Automated reactor systems
- 50 mL – 5 L controlled reactors
- Advanced process analytical tools (PAT)
- Design of Experiment (DoE) studies for process robustness and optimization
- Peptide crystallization
- Analytical method development (UHPLC, Dissolution, cleaning validation, etc.)
- GMP release
- ICH validation
- ICH stability testing
Meet one of our Edinburgh experts

Hannah McLachlan
With over 10 years assisting clients at Cambrex’s Solid State Chemistry site in Scotland, Hannah leads Cambrex’s peptide crystallization programs, focused on improving the stability, purity and efficiency of peptide-based therapeutics.