Fit for Health and HEALTH-NCP-NET projectsare funded by the European Commission

The Antwerp Drug Discovery Network

University of Antwerp

FP7 Health Partnering event

10 June 2011, Brussels

SME session

Fit for Health and HEALTH-NCP-NET projectsare funded by the European Commission

Consortium

Academic research platform with:• Industrial standards• Broad international network• Clear and ambitious strategy

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Fit for Health and HEALTH-NCP-NET projectsare funded by the European Commission

Strategy

Academic research platform with:• Industrial standards• Broad international network• Clear and ambitious strategy

Goals• Develop new and promising candidate drugs• Provide in vitro & in vivo compound profiles• Projects in international context• Focus on industrial collaboration

Outcomes• Preclinical candidates• Patents• Preclinical and clinical validation with industry• Spin-offs

Fit for Health and HEALTH-NCP-NET projectsare funded by the European Commission

Expertise

Academic research platform with:• Industrial standards• Broad international network• Clear and ambitious strategy

• High capacity evaluation of anti-infective agents

• ‘Hit-to-lead’ and ‘lead optimization’ medicinal chemistry projects

• In silico and in vitro physicochemical characterization

• In vivo pharmacokinetic studies

• Design, synthesis and evaluation of chemical probes– Target identification & validation– Compound validation– Biomarker & bio-imaging research

Fit for Health and HEALTH-NCP-NET projectsare funded by the European Commission

EU Collaborations

Academic research platform with:• Industrial standards• Broad international network• Clear and ambitious strategy

Fit for Health and HEALTH-NCP-NET projectsare funded by the European Commission

• Topic interest 2012– 1.2 Detection diagnosis and monitoring

– 2.1.2 Systems biology– 2.2.2 Human development and aging

– 2.3.2 HIV/AIDS, malaria and tuberculosis

• ADDN input– Medicinal chemistry

– In vitro and in vivo evaluation for infectious diseases– PK studies

– Biochemical evaluation/molecular biology

– Activity-based probes

Topic

Fit for Health and HEALTH-NCP-NET projectsare funded by the European Commission

Thank you!

Jurgen.Joossens@ua.ac.be

Jurgen Joossens, PhD, Pharm. D. Research & Innovation Manager Drug Discovery Medicinal Chemistry University of AntwerpCampus Drie Eiken, Office A2.05Universiteitsplein 1BE-2610 Wilrijk , BelgiumTel. +32 (0)3.265.28.92http://www.addn.be

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