Our services for industry

 

Many people seem to think that iNEXT-Discovery structural biology services are just for academics. In fact, also all researchers from industry - either small or large companies - are of course more than welcome to make use of our iNEXT-Discovery training and access opportunities, they are even essential to make several networking activities a success! Below, our versatile offer for researchers coming from companies is outlined. Don't hesitate to contact us directly with questions or for more information.

 

NETWORKING WITH INDUSTRY

One particular goal of iNEXT-Discovery project is making the entire European life science research community and many others aware of the enormous power and benefits of structural biology methodology being an indispensable tool for all kinds of translational research.

For decades already, our iNEXT-Discovery research facilities are open to offer their services also to researchers from companies, and besides apparatus manufacturers many other company researchers engage directly with facility staff, often considered the expert users of the highest-end structural biology equipment available. These direct interactions do not only lead to industry using the facility's access services, but perhaps even more importantly they feed internal discussions for a company's structural biology program, and could eventually even inform strategic investments in expensive research equipment and expertise.

Company researchers that like more information about high-end structural biology research and our services, please contact us. Also, don't hesitate to contact our facility staff to directly discuss your ideas!

 

Industry Panel

iNEXT-Discovery contacted different manufacturers of structural biology equipment and commercial applicants from larger and smaller companies to form our Industry Panel. This versatile and very active group is frequently present at our events. They are an essential asset for the success of our project, assisting us with discussions on demands, desires and suggestions to improve our networking and access services to become an increasingly attractive platform also for researchers from companies!

Marcel Blommers

Saverna Therapeutics

Zdenek Hostomsky

Academy of Sciences (CZ)

Magali Mathieu

Sanofi Aventis

Marc Storms

Thermofischer Scientific

Sophie Zimmermann

MoloX

 

 

TRAINING FOR INDUSTRY

Besides participating in our regular theoretical and practical courses and workshops, researchers from companies visit iNEXT-Discovery facilities to receive hands-on training for obtaining structural biology experience under expert supervision. Such training could even include data acquisition, processing and analysis, however, in some cases applying for access through our access portal is a pre-requisite. If you are interested, please contact us directly.

 

 

 

ACCESS SERVICES FOR INDUSTRY

The iNEXT-Discovery access portfolio includes some specific access possibilities that are clearly beneficial to researchers from companies, including for instance fragment and ligand screening. Also in many other situations we imagine that the highest-end structural biology equipment and expertise that is available in our facilities could be an ideal starting point to address specific research topics.

 

iNEXT-Discovery access services for researchers affiliated with the private sector comes in three different flavors

 

1. PAID-FOR ACCESS

Mediated by the iNEXT-Discovery Project Manager, company researchers can be brought in direct contact with facility staff to discuss direct access provision. After this initial 'match-making' iNEXT-Discovery is out of the equation. The company and facility negotiate between themselves the details for "Paid-for-Access"; they can even prepare Confidential Agreements if desired.

If you're interested, please contact us directly or go through our access portal! Please note that for the latter registration is requested to allow us to use the interaction between iNEXT-Discovery and your company as a statistic for showing the EC and the outside world that researchers from industry are interested and involved in our access offer.

 

2. THE 'INDUSTRY-PUBLISH' ACCESS PORTAL

For projects that are less privacy- or IPR-sensitive, company researchers are invited to submit access proposals that will be evaluated by few external reviewers that prepared Confidentiality Agreements with us. These reviewers will be the only externals to judge the projects for scientific merit; after acceptance, the proposal is forwarded to the requested facility.

For this access possibility, EC-regulations dictate that the 'intention to publish the data obtained through iNEXT-Discovery access' remains. Also, through this path iNEXT-Discovery facilities are unable to reimburse researchers from industry for traveling, accommodation or shipment of samples. Applications for this pipeline can be submitted here after registration with Instruct-ERIC (Select ' Industry-Publish' button at the bottom of the page).

 

3. THE 'STANDARD ACCESS' PORTAL (also used for academics)

All access services that are offered through the iNEXT-Discovery catalogue are open for researchers from the private sector. Following our standard pipeline, researchers from companies that visit facilities are eligible to be reimbursed for their traveling, accommodation or shipment of samples (Access Guidelines).

Also here, like for academic applicants, EC regulations require registration and external peer-reviewing for every access proposal that is submitted, and the company researchers should have the intention to publish the obtained research data (except SMEs). More information is found here, your applications can be submitted here.