News

News
Share this article
16 March 2020

UK researchers remain eligible to apply for ELF screening post-Brexit

We are pleased to confirm that following the UK's exit from the European Union on 31 January, the European Lead Factory (ELF) will still be able to process the drug target proposals of UK researchers over the coming years.

Read more
News
Share this article
29 January 2020

ELF highlighted in IMI publication on 10 years of public private partnerships

A recent article, authored by Hugh Laverty and Pierre Meulien from the Innovative Medicines Initiative (IMI) and featured in Frontiers in Medicine, highlights the importance of Public-Private Partnerships (PPPs) in health.

Read more
News
Share this article
24 January 2020

Collaboration breeds success: Discovery of a new chemical class to investigate role of EPAC proteins in diabetes and cardiovascular diseases

Scientists from the Yarwood Lab and the European Screening Centre have jointly published on the discovery of a new class of EPAC activators. The study, which describes the identification, optimisation and characterisation of a new chemical class of selective agonists for EPAC1, is the result of another successful collaboration within the framework of the European Lead Factory (ELF).

Read more
News
Share this article
15 January 2020

Our Compound Collection shipped to participating screening centres all over Europe

The European Lead Factory (ELF) project has some impressive numbers to share! Over the past months, ELF Partner BioAscent has shipped 3,256 screening plates from the updated Compound Collection to the nine screening sites that are part of ELF.

Read more
News
Share this article
13 January 2020

The European Lead Factory supports World Neglected Tropical Diseases Day

This 30 January marks the inaugural World Neglected Tropical Diseases (NTD) Day, an initiative designed to draw attention to priority issues surrounding NTDs and the efforts being made to combat them. Falling on the anniversary of the landmark 2012 London Declaration on NTDs, which united partners in the drive for greater action on NTDs, the Day hopes to inspire further support for this cause.

Read more
News
Share this article
13 January 2020

Significant steps taken in the development of potential new cancer treatments

Together with the European Lead Factory (ELF), scientists from the German Cancer Research Center (DKFZ) have successfully discovered potent and selective inhibitors of enzymes associated with the development of some cancers and neurodegenerative diseases. Published in ChemMedChem, the findings mark a significant step in the development of potential new cancer treatments.

Read more
News
Share this article
03 September 2019

New screening technology available at the European Lead Factory

Pivot Park Screening Centre (PPSC) is excited to announce the availability of a novel technology for screening in European Lead Factory.

Read more
News
Share this article
23 May 2019

The European Lead Factory welcomes new innovative screening proposals

The European Lead Factory is excited to continue running high quality programmes and is looking forward to receiving more innovative screening proposals.

Read more
News
Share this article
02 May 2019

The success story continues: new funding for the European Lead Factory

The European Lead Factory (ELF) secured a total project budget of EUR 36.5 million under the second framework of the Innovative Medicines Initiative (IMI). 20 partners in 7 countries will push forward the transformation of potential drug targets to new medicines in the new project ESCulab (European Screening Centre: unique library for attractive biology) under the European Lead Factory brand.

Read more
Press Release
Share this article
02 May 2019

The European Lead Factory, Europe’s largest collaborative drug discovery platform, continues its success story

2 May 2019, Utrecht (The Netherlands) The European Lead Factory (ELF) secured a total project budget of EUR 36.5 million under the second framework of the Innovative Medicines Initiative (IMI). Over the next 5 years, 20 partners in 7 countries will push forward the transformation of potential drug targets to new medicines in the new project ESCulab (European Screening Centre: unique library for attractive biology) under the European Lead Factory brand.

Read more

Pages