About
J-STAR Research

Solving Complex Chemistry Problems with Creative Solutions for 29 Years and providing integrated drug substance and drug product services

Founded in 1996 J-STAR Research, Inc. is a contract process R&D and cGMP manufacturing organization serving as an outsourcing partner for the pharmaceutical and biotechnology industry.

Over the past 29 years, J-STAR has assembled a team of chemists, scientists and engineers committed to creatively solving complex and matrixed chemistry and formulation problems.

Areas That Continue To Expand

While high quality synthetic chemistry and process research services continue to be at J-STAR’s foundation, the company has steadily added, and continues to expand, in the following areas:

  • Process R&D
  • Enabling Technologies
  • QC/QA
  • High Potent Compound Handling (HPAPI)
  • GMP delivery
  • Impurity Isolation and Structural Elucidation
  • Crystallization R&D
  • Pre-formulation
  • Solid States Screening
  • Formulation R&D
  • Catalysis Screening
  • Oral Solid Drug Product GMP manufacturing

Dependability and Flexibility

In addition to J-STAR’s creative chemistry and engineering problem solving, J-STAR has a track record of dependability and flexibility.

This ability to adapt to changes within the dynamic preclinical and clinical R&D space, when coupled with J-STAR’s unflinching focus to meet objective timelines with rigorous quality, leads to a unique value proposition for your Drug Substance or Drug Product Program.

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Our History

  • 1996
    Founded and lab work started in Newark, NJ
  • 2000
    Moved to new laboratory space in Plainfield, NJ
  • 2008
    1st cGMP campaign
  • 2017
    Acquired by Porton Pharma Solutions
  • 2017
    R&D expanded to 2nd facility in Cranbury, NJ
  • 2021
    Construction started on 3rd R&D facility in Cranbury, NJ