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Welcome to J-STAR Research,
a premier pharmaceutical Contract Research & Development & Manufacturing Organization (CRDMO).

At J-STAR, every project benefits from the collective expertise of world-class scientists and decades of hands-on experience in the pharma industry. Our team is uniquely positioned to deliver high-quality solutions tailored to the specific needs of our clients, leveraging innovative approaches and cutting-edge technology to meet stringent timelines.

Tailored High Quality Solutions

Our team is uniquely positioned to deliver high-quality solutions tailored to the specific needs of our clients.

Accelerate Your Development Journey

Leveraging innovative approaches and cutting-edge technology to meet stringent timelines.

Potent & Efficient Compound Handling

As a trusted leader in the field, we also specialize in potent and high-potent compound handling, employing state-of-the-art equipment to tackle the most challenging projects.

Why Choose J-STAR

  • Most Experienced

    Founded in 1996, J-STAR Research has assembled one of the most talented and experienced chemical process teams in the industry.

  • World-Class R&D Scientists

    Innovative scientists focused on creative solutions to client problems.

  • Effective Solutions

    Streamline your program through all phases of development

  • State of the Art Equipment

    J-STAR has a comprehensive suite of processing and analytical capabilities

Use Predictions to Improve Strategies & Approaches

The reasonable predictions produced through computational investigation can help guide reaction development by understanding non-trivial molecular interactions.

Using these predictions, J-STAR Research scientists can gain deeper mechanistic insight, rationalize experimental observations, and identify improved strategies and routes towards their targeted molecules.

Computational Chemistry & Data Science Capabilities

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About
J-STAR Research

Why Choose J-STAR

  • Exceptional Customer Service

    Led by a strong management team, J-STAR Research provides the highest level of scientific expertise, customer service and personal attention to every project

  • Innovative Problem-Solving

    Creative J-STAR scientists are assigned to projects based on their technical acumen and problem-solving ability.

  • State of the
    Art Facilities

    Two NJ-based R&D centers totaling 129,000 SF.

  • Latest
    Equipment

    J-STAR has an industry-leading suite of analytical, automation and PAT instrumentation.

Accelerate Your Development Journey

Early Stage

Drug Development

  • Improved Access to the Core Scaffolds
  • Optimize Problem Points

Mid-Stage

Candidate Confirm

First-in-human (FIH) Enabling Toxicology Aupplies

CGMP Clinical Supplies

IND Filing Date

Late Stage

  • Flexible Route design
  • Or final API target

Large-Scale Manufacturing

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.

Welcome to J-STAR Research,
a premier pharmaceutical Contract Research & Development & Manufacturing Organization (CRDMO).

At J-STAR, every project benefits from the collective expertise of world-class scientists and decades of hands-on experience in the pharma industry. Our team is uniquely positioned to deliver high-quality solutions tailored to the specific needs of our clients, leveraging innovative approaches and cutting-edge technology to meet stringent timelines.

Tailored High Quality Solutions

Our team is uniquely positioned to deliver high-quality solutions tailored to the specific needs of our clients.

Accelerate Your Development Journey

Leveraging innovative approaches and cutting-edge technology to meet stringent timelines.

Potent & Efficient Compound Handling

As a trusted leader in the field, we also specialize in potent and high-potent compound handling, employing state-of-the-art equipment to tackle the most challenging projects.

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

Essential Groundwork for any Compound

Client medicinal chemistry processes commonly face multiple risks and challenges, including:

  • Lengthy syntheses
  • Multiple column chromatography steps
  • Low-yielding reactions
  • Scaling issues when moving from milligrams to hundreds of grams
  • Hazardous reagents
  • Non-environmentally friendly chemistries
  • Reaction conditions incompatible with most API manufacturers
  • Insufficient chiral chemistry applications

J-STAR understands that when a synthesis contains too many of these challenges, the cost of that compound can become extremely expensive—for example, even a few hundred grams could escalate costs to over 1 million USD!

Essential Groundwork for any Compound

Client medicinal chemistry processes commonly face multiple risks and challenges, including:

  • Lengthy syntheses
  • Multiple column chromatography steps
  • Low-yielding reactions
  • Scaling issues when moving from milligrams to hundreds of grams
  • Hazardous reagents
  • Non-environmentally friendly chemistries
  • Reaction conditions incompatible with most API manufacturers
  • Insufficient chiral chemistry applications

J-STAR understands that when a synthesis contains too many of these challenges, the cost of that compound can become extremely expensive—for example, even a few hundred grams could escalate costs to over 1 million USD!

Our Computational Capabilities

Using up to 24-cores/48-threads and 192GB of RAM, the computational resources at J-STAR Research provides a wide range of capabilities.

  • 24
    Cores
  • 48
    Threads
  • 192 GB
    ram

Commonly Used Software Packages

  • Gaussian 16
  • xtb
  • CREST

Commonly Used Methods

  • Dispersion-corrected Density Functional Theory (DFT-D)
  • Molecular Mechanics and Dynamics (MM & MD)
  • Semi-empirical quantum chemistry methods (GFNn-xTB)
  • ONIOM (QM/MM methods)

Properties

Properties that can be predicted from computational models include:

  • 3-D molecular geometries, torsions potential energy scan, conformers population distribution in solutions
  • Stereoisomers population distribution in solvent systems
  • Absolute and Relative Free Energies of chemical reactions in solvent systems
  • Electronic Properties (charge distribution, molecular orbitals, reactivity indices, etc.)
  • Spectroscopic Properties (IR, NMR, UV-vis, ECD, VCD, Raman)
  • Bond Dissociation Energies (BDE)
  • Free energy of atom abstraction scan in a solvent system (e.g. hydrogen/proton, Li)
  • Acid Dissociation Constants (pKa)

In addition to molecular properties, entire or partial reaction pathways can be examined at the molecular scale predicting values like activation energy and site reactivity, giving insights into reaction kinetics, transition states, reaction orders, product distributions and more.

Use Predictions to Improve Strategies & Approaches

The reasonable predictions produced through computational investigation can help guide reaction development by understanding non-trivial molecular interactions.

Using these predictions, J-STAR Research scientists can gain deeper mechanistic insight, rationalize experimental observations, and identify improved strategies and routes towards their targeted molecules.

Computational Chemistry

Route Scouting
Optimization of Reactions
  • Understanding

    Better understanding of structures and properties of working catalysts

  • Driver Development

    Computational chemistry aids in the first principal driven development of our processes.

Integrated in route scouting, optimization of reactions, better understanding of structures and properties of working catalysts, computational chemistry aids in the first principal driven development of our processes.

Using relatively routine methods, our skilled computational chemists can provide predictions that are close to experimental data with proper considerations of methods and basis sets of various important chemical properties, strongly complementing classical experimental results.

What Our Computational Chemists Can Offer

Predictions

Predictions that are close to experimental data with proper considerations of methods

Basis Sets

Basis sets of various important chemical properties

Experimental Results

Strongly complementing classical experimental results.