Overview

ELRIG conference directors Mike Jowett (Cambridge Bioscience) and Mark Wigglesworth (AstraZeneca) are pleased to announce the 3rd annual Research & Innovation conference, which will be held on March 18th, 2015, at its new venue - Trent Vineyard in Nottingham.

The theme of this year's conference is "Exploiting New Approaches for Drug Discovery". The meeting will bring together world class speakers and leading industry experts who will discuss the challenges and opportunities in developing and applying new technologies to improve the success of drug discovery and the way different organisations meet this challenge by bringing their scientists together to stimulate innovation.

The conference will have 3 scientific tracks, each representing a major transformative area for early stage drug discovery:

- New Approaches to Phenotypic Screening "this session will define new thinking in the use of phenotypic screening and the impact novel technologies such as 3D cellular systems, stem cells, Crispr and target deconvolution have on this type of screening strategy."

- Novel Methods for Toxicity Studies- presentations in this track will discuss novel methods and technologies that are being used to better predict compound toxicity and explore how to reduce failure rates by ensuring compound safety and lack of toxicity in early drug development.

- Open Innovation, the Way Forward? new for this year, this session will focus on the critical need for open innovation networks and the use of collaborations and joint projects between different academic and industry organisations to make powerful leaps forward for new breakthrough therapies.

Each year, the ELRIG Research & Innovation 1-day conference provides a highly impactful learning and networking opportunity for scientists engaged in early-phase drug discovery whether in Academia, Biotech or Pharma. The scientific sessions will be complemented by a high quality scientific poster session, networking opportunities and a vendor exhibition with over 40 exhibitors, including recently formed companies with new and disruptive emerging technologies.

This is a must-attend event to learn about new state-of-the-art technologies and the latest research and innovation trends in drug discovery!



Venue: Trent Vineyard Conference Centre
Location: Easter Park, Lenton Ln, Nottingham
Country: United Kingdom

Organiser Contact Details:
Dermot Boylan
T: +44 (0)845 017 0517
info@elrig.org