Research

Douglas Connect provides the expertise to organise, run, support, and manage collaborative research projects, both innovation-oriented and service-based. We can draw on our hundreds of community contacts to assemble the best team for the job, working within an effective virtual organisation structure.

We are active in EU FP7 research projects including leading the industry requirements analysis for SYNERGY collaboration research and are the Project Coordinator for OpenTox which is developing an integrating predictive toxicology framework.  The OpenTox 2011 InterAction Meeting took place 9-12 August 2011 at the Technical University of Munich, Germany.  Please click here for more details.

Douglas Connect is coordinating the Scientists Against Malaria collaboration which was formed in June 2010 to apply modern drug design and modelling techniques in combination with industry standard infrastructure and interdisciplinary science to develop new treatments against Malaria.

In January 2011, The ToxBank Project commenced. ToxBank, which involves 8 partners, establishes a dedicated web-based warehouse for toxicity data management and modelling, a "gold standards" compound database and repository of selected test compounds, and a reference resource for cells, cell lines and tissues of relevance for in vitro systemic toxicity research carried out across the FP7 HEALTH.2010.4.2.9 Alternative Testing Strategies SEURAT program. The project develops infrastructure and service functions to create a sustainable predictive toxicology support resource going beyond the lifetime of the program.  Douglas Connect is also coordinating this project.

Douglas Connect acts both as the initiator of independent research projects (eg. in Discovery Informatics, Knowledge Management in Pharma & Life Sciences, Drug Safety, Chemistry, etc.), and as a provider of integrated services for corporate clients and institutions.