20 Years Keeping the Scientific Community up-to-date
For twenty years Scientific Update have been providing high-quality, specialised training courses and first-class process chemistry focussed conferences to chemists and chemical engineering, throughout the world.
Here are just some of the key events, this highly-talented company have brought to the Scientific Community over its 20 year history. Quite an achievement!
| 1989 | First Chemical Development & Scale-Up in the Fine Chemical Industry Training Course - this remains one of our most popular courses to date. |
| 1990 | Dr Trevor Laird initiates plans for a new process chemistry journal. Scientific Update branches out into S & M – Synthesis and Methods, an annual course launched. |
| 1994 | First of the successful bi-annual conference, The Scale-Up of Chemical Processes, in Brighton |
| 1995 | Launch of Scientific Update web site Dr Derek Robinson joins Scientific Updates' consultancy team after developing a new course for development chemists on Good Manufacturing Practices in Chemical Development |
| 1997 | Dr Laird is appointed editor of the new ACS/RSC journal Organic Process Research & Development and the 1st International conference Organic Process Research and Development is held in San Francisco. |
| 1998 | Scientific Update expands through acquisition of Spring Innovations conference business. Three new courses launched, Separation Technology for Organic Chemists, and Organic Chemistry for Chemical Engineers and Essential Aromatic Heterocyclic Chemistry |
| 1999 |
New web site with online registration and we celebrate our 10th Anniversary |
| 2000 | Dr Will Watson joins us as Technical Director |
| 2001 | Two new courses, Carbon-Carbon Bond Formation and Fundamentals of Chemical Processing for Bulk Drugs and Intermediates and launch of a FREE bi-monthly e-Newsletter, "What's New in Process Chemistry" |
| 2002 | 2001 Nobel Prize winner for Chemistry gives keynote presentation at Chiral Asia conference in Hong Kong |
| Scientific Update is awarded the prestigious "Queens Award for Enterprise: International Trade 2002" | |
| Secrets of Batch Process Scale-Up training course, given by Fran McConville, is held and proves to be an extremely popular and successful addition to the Scientific Update portfolio of training courses. | |
| 2003 |
Dr Peter Spargo joins Scientific Upate. He was formerly Director of European Chemical R & D for Pfizer Global R & D. |
| 2006 | Dr Trevor Laird owner and of Scientific Update focusses on consultancy and expert witness work. |
| "What's New in Process Chemistry" features snippets of relevant topcial tips of interest to chemists and chemical engineers. |
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| 2008 | Dr John Knight joins Scientific Update in January 2008 as Scientific Director. |
| Scientific Update host a series of round-table discussions at Informex. |
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| Scientific Update for the first time take a booth at CPhI. |