For a second year, SGC Toronto hosted a team of senior law students from the University of Toronto's Faculty of Law as part of an externship clinic to help SGC draft new agreements protecting our open access ethos and promoting our open science.
Oxford, UK (April 23rd, 2016) -FOP patient groups have announced an extension of their support to the FOP research team in SGC Oxford led by Dr Alex Bullock since 2008. The team, currently comprising two postdoctoral fellows, is working towards developing a treatment for the rare monogenic disease Fibrodysplasia Ossificans Progressiva (FOP), a disorder that causes severely debilitating extraskeletal bone formation and impairs movement.
Farnborough, Hampshire UK (April 13th, 2016) -We are delighted to announce a groundbreaking partnership between The Brain Tumour Charity and the Structural Genomics Consortium (SGC), an international group of academic and industrial researchers with a strong track record in uncovering new drug targets and initiating clinical trials within unusually short timeframes.
Rachel Harding, a researcher at SGC Toronto, appears on Global News discussing her open science experiment. She's welcomed the world to view her research progress in real-time by placing her lab notes online and explaining her results on her blog Lab Scribbles.
Fremont, CA – February 29, 2016 – DiscoverX Corporation, the leading supplier of innovative cell-based assays and services for drug discovery and development, today announced its partnership with the Structural Genomics Consortium (SGC), a public-private organization established in 2003, to develop selective and potent chemical probes for the unexplored human kinome and to promote open sharing of these probes with the scientific community.
TORONTO, February 26, 2016 — University of Toronto researcher Rachel Harding will be the first known biomedical researcher to welcome the world to review her lab notes in real time. The post-doctoral fellow with U of T’s Structural Genomics Consortium (SGC) is also explaining her findings to the general public through her blog. She hopes her open approach will accelerate research into Huntington’s disease.
This month, we talk to Dr Wen Hwa Lee, Strategic Alliances Manager at the Structural Genomics Consortium (SGC), part of the Nuffield Department of Clinical Medicine, about how the SGC is revolutionising the way we think about drug discovery.
We have recently heard a lot about open innovation in drug discovery and biomedicine – with the Structural Genomics Consortium (SGC) being one of the shining examples, mentioned in industry and strategic reports (including RAND, Deloitte and the recent Dowling Report) – can you tell us a bit more about it?
Myeloma UK and the Structural Genomics Consortium (SGC) have entered into an open-access research partnership to discover and characterise novel drug targets for myeloma using structural biology and chemical proteomics.
In this first partnership of its kind in Europe, Myeloma UK and the SGC have explicitly agreed not to file for patents on any of the collaborative research and to make all reagents and knowledge available without restriction to the wider research community, including pharmaceutical, biotech, and academic research groups.
University of Toronto and McGill University scientists are leading an international partnership to discover new and improved drug treatments for tuberculosis, malaria and neglected tropical diseases -- thanks to a contribution from Merck Canada Inc., as well as an additional $5 million supplement to a grant from the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation. The new funding brings the total investment from the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation to nearly US $12 million since 2012.
OAKVILLE, ON, Dec. 4, 2015 /CNW/ - Takeda Pharmaceutical Company Limited (Takeda) today announced it has renewed its partnership with the Structural Genomics Consortium (SGC) to fund collective drug research aimed at bringing new, more effective medicines to patients faster. Takeda has invested an additional CAD$7.5 million, adding to its initial investment in 2012 of CAD$5 million.