CDD community meeting on open R&D for developing world disease
Last August I moved out to San Francisco to join a great cheminformatics startup, Collaborative Drug Discovery, as director of software development. Two months ago (March 5th) we had our first user community meeting on open R&D for developing world disease drug discovery. It was an inspiring event, both because of the evident energy of the community and because it made it so much clearer to me how important our customers’ work is.
Prof. Jim McKerrow at UCSF gave a nice overview of the scope of the work our customers face, and how collaboration (through CDD and otherwise) helps them arrive at cures sooner and more efficiently (the slides are blurry, so download them separately). We put up several other talks from the meeting on Google Video, available along with PDF slides from our website, including one by the famous medicinal chemist, Chris Lipinski, who is a member of our customer advisory board. Cool stuff.