The equipment, bought as part of the Met4Pharm project financed from EU structural funds, will help boost the PMF's technical capacity, competitiveness and cooperation with the private sector, project manager Predrag Novak said.
Science, Education and Sport Minister Vedran Mornar said the project showed that Croatian science had the capacity to compete with the strongest on the market. He said that new rules on financing researchers would be adopted to stimulate "people who want to work."
The partner in the project is the pharmaceutical company Pliva. The project will last 16 months, with the EU having provided HRK 6.02 million of its total value.
The project, the biggest in the history of the Department of Chemistry, is expected to introduce innovative methods in the production of medicines and bioactive molecules and reduce the consumption of harmful molecules. The purpose of the project is also to help establish a regional centre for nuclear magnetic resonance imaging.