Research Facilities
Our institute in the heart of Berlin
 
Processing equipment
- Milling, mixing, sieving
 
- High shear-, rotor-, wet-granulation
 
- Extrusion / spheronisation
 
- Tabletting (single punch and rotary-table tablet presses)
 
- Fluidized bed coating
 
- Pan coating
 
- Spray-drying
 
- Freeze-drying
 
- Hot melt extrusion
 
- Emulsification / homogenization
 
- Miniaturisation of equipment to handle smallest drug quantities
 
Analytical equipment
- Pharmacopoeial testing of drug products
 
- Drug dissolution testing (USP apparatus, Franz diffusion cells)
 
- Liquid chromatography (HPLC, GPC)
 
- Gel electrophoresis and isoelectric focusing
 
- Spectroscopy (UV-VIS, Fluorimetry, FTIR)
 
- Thermal analysis (DSC, TGA)
 
- Dynamic vapour sorption
 
- Mechanical properties analysis (Instron, Texture analyzer)
 
- Surface tension / contact angle
 
- Rheology and torque rheometry
 
- Powder testing (rheology, pharmacopoeial testing)
 
- Powder X-Ray Diffractometry
 
- Hg Porosimetry / N2 Pycnometry
 
- Particle size (LD, PCS, Coulter counter)
 
- Image and video analysis
 
- Microscopy and SEM
 
- Stability testing chambers (T, RH, light)