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• CoCo Therapeutics Ltd. Formed to Advance Development of Alzheimer@s Drug

• Date: 01 April 2013
• CoCo Therapeutics Ltd. was founded upon the successful collaboration between King’s College London, The Wellcome Trust and Advent Venture Partners to advance an Alzheimer's drug candidate to late stage clinical trials. The company's has developed...

• Ohio State University (OSU) and Biosortia Pharmaceuticals Partner to Identify Anti-Cancer Drugs

• Date: 01 April 2013
• Ohio State University (OSU) and Biosortia Pharmaceuticals have partnered to discover and develop drugs targeting human colon cancer. Dr. Kinghorn of OSU will be responsible for the separation and identification of anti-cancer components from...

• Roaring Response for Academic Drug Discovery Conference 2013

• Date: 16 October 2013
• Discovery.Wide...

• Article in "Forbes" about the ADDC

• Date: 21 October 2013
• Universities Stepping Up Efforts To Discover Drugs
  Merck ’s recent announcement about dramatically cutting R&D is just the latest such move in the pharmaceutical industry. Merck joins a number of companies including Pfizer PFE +0.23%, Lilly,...

• "High Content Review" interviews Michelle Arkin about the ADDC

• Date: 09 December 2013
• Introducing the Academic Drug Discovery Consortium (ADDC)
  Last year HCR posted Outsourcing HCS: a summary of some options a lab
  might consider if they are contemplating a high content screen. Since then a group of directors from university based drug...

• Article in "The Pink Sheet Daily" Profiling the ADDC

• Date: 15 October 2013
• Academic Drug-Discovery Units Team Up To Share Knowledge, Facilitate Partnering
  Founded in 2012, the Academic Drug Discovery Consortium intends to serve as a clearinghouse for both academia and industry on research underway at U.S. and international...

• Article in "Nature" about the ADDC

• Date: 31 October 2013
• Bringing together the academic drug discovery community.
  The newly formed Academic Drug Discovery Consortium (ADDC) aims to support the growing numbers of university centres engaged in drug discovery that have emerged in response to recent changes in...

• Project Profile at Small Molecule Discovery Center (SMDC) at UCSF

• Date: 30 December 2013
• The Small Molecule Discovery Center (SMDC) at UCSF comprises more than twenty staff scientists, students, and postdocs engaged in lead discovery efforts spanning screening through lead optimization. The SMDC collaborates with researchers...

• Editorial Column for The Tennessean on ADDC Conference

• Date: 30 December 2013
• In recent weeks people across the United States have heard national leaders express concern related to our nation's health care system and the best way to ensure sustainable, highly effective treatment for the millions of Americans facing...

• ADDF - 2014 PRECLINICAL DRUG DISCOVERY RFP

• Date: 24 January 2014
• The Alzheimers Drug Discovery Foundation seeks to fill the critical translational funding gap between basic research and later stage drug development by funding promising preclinical drug discovery and biomarker development programs relevant to...