Research Center Pharmaceutical Engineering GmbH Information

The Research Center for Pharmaceutical Engineering (RCPE) is a global leader in pharmaceutical engineering sciences. We help our partners to create and manufacture advanced medicines for patients around the world, through optimising products and processes. Leveraging the expertise of our unique multidisciplinary team and our state-of-the-art capabilities in modeling, material science, process design, quality assurance and control, we redefine current thinking in the field of healthcare offering cutting-edge, scientific solutions tailored to customer needs. RCPE’s services encompass the entire value chain of pharmaceutical product development: continuous API synthesis, advanced formulations, next-generation manufacturing, and also device design and optimization. As a non-profit, private company owned by Graz University of Technology (65%), University of Graz (20%) and Joanneum Research GmbH (15%), we link outstanding science, application and industry in a business-oriented approach. RCPE is a K1 COMET Centre within the Competence Centres for Excellent Technologies (COMET) programme. The COMET programme is operated by the Austrian Research Promotion Agency (FFG) on behalf of the Federal Ministry for Transport, Innovation and Technology (BMVIT) and the Federal Ministry for Digital and Economic Affairs (BMDW). Our projects are also funded by Land Steiermark and the Styrian Business Development Agency (SFG).