Bernhard Rapkay, MdEP (SPD) visited Taros Chemicals
Dortmund, 25.07.2013 ++++
Bernhard Rapkay, NRW MdEP for the SPD has been informed by Dr. Dimitrios Tzalis (founder & CEO)about the backgrounds of the unique EUR 196 million budgeted “Europen lead factory drug development platform (ELF)” during his stay at Dortmund based Taros Chemicals, the Leader of ELF’s Chemistry Consortium.
About Taros Chemicals
Taros is a privately owned discovery chemistry company, working with global pharmaceutical, biotech and chemical companies since 1999. Alongside our performance chemicals and material science division, Taros’ drug discovery mission is to create drug candidates as potential new medicines. Taros has a strong scientific track record on many biomolecular targets in all main therapeutic areas and thereby adding considerable value to collaborations from target validation and hit identification to lead generation and optimization. Taros’ core expertise ranges from custom synthesis and process development to modern medicinal and computational chemistry, as well as compound library design and production.
Taros was heading the chemistry efforts of the EUR 196 million funded European Lead Factory (2013-2018) and is currently heading its EUR 36.5 million funded continuation (2019-2022). Moreover, Taros is deeply engaged in other research alliances like the EUR 11 million funded Drug Discovery Hub Dortmund.
Press Contact:
Youri R. Mesmoudi, Executive Vice President, e-mail: innovation |at| taros.de
Acknowledgement of support
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Drug Discovery
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Material Science
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