Name: How do we discover new medicines?
Start: 2022-05-12T19:00:00
End: 2022-05-12T21:00:00
Location: The Maypole

In this special event with industry-leading experts we look at how drugs are made using the latest technology and how new therapies are being developed.

Inventing modern-day drugs

European Laboratory Research Group (ELRIG)

Steve Rees, OBE (VP, Discovery Biology Discovery Sciences, BioPharmaceuticals R&D, AstraZeneca, Cambridge)

Thibault Laurent (Technical Specialist, CRISPR Engineering, Synthego)

ELRIG (the European Laboratory Research Group) is a not-for-profit organisation at the hub of the global effort to discover and produce new medicines. At this informal meeting, experienced drug discoverists, from the pharmaceutical company AstraZeneca and the biotech company Synthego, talk on our behalf about the technologies and processes they use to invent modern-day drugs and the new therapies that will soon be with us.

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