Fragment-Screen Kick-Off Meeting | Harald Schwalbe

From our Kick-off Meeting in Frankfurt, Instruct-ERIC Director Harald Schwalbe outlines the rationale for the Fragment-Screen project, and provides an introduction into how it will be structured.
The Fragment-Screen project will develop innovative instrumentation, workflows and experimental and computational methodologies for fragment-based drug discovery (FBDD) enabling access to early phase structure-based drug discovery for all biological targets and for scientists both in industry and academia. The established workflows will use structural biology insights and associated data to feed artificial intelligence (AI) methodology to guide medicinal chemistry in drug development. Fragment-Screen brings together scientists from four ESFRI Landmark research infrastructures (RIs): ESRF (the European synchrotron) and the distributed RIs EU-OPENSCREEN ERIC (medicinal chemistry), ELIXIR (data resources for life science) under the coordination of Instruct-ERIC (integrated structural biology) and seven industry partners in scientific instrumentation and computational and AI sectors including SMEs to remove crucial bottlenecks in early phase drug discovery.