The Center

Drug discovery and development is a team sport, with moments of brilliant thinking and hours of painstakingly detailed work and therefore we have to intensify our partnership with leading academic centers.
Jean-Pierre Garnier, CEO of GlaxoSmithKline (May 2008)

The RCPE was founded on June 26th, 2008 and is funded via the Austrian COMET K1-Programme. We are currently collaborating with 40 partners in industry and science. As a pre-competitive and business-linked research institute we make our contribution to the constant progress in the area of pharmaceutical development and engineering as well as in related areas.

On the following pages you will find general information about the center, our team, our partners and our sponsors.

K1 Competence Center - Initiated by the Federal Ministry of Transport, Innovation & Technology (BMVIT) and the Federal Ministry of Economy, Family & Youth (BMWFJ). Funded by the Austrian Research Promotion Agency (FFG), Land Steiermark and the Styrian Business Promotion Agency (SFG).