Cambridge Pharmaceutical Cryo-EM Consortium Inauguration

The Cambridge Pharmaceutical Cryo-EM Consortium will inaugurate its newest Thermo Scientific™ Krios™ Cryo Transmission Electron Microscope (Cryo-TEM), located at the University of Cambridge Department of Materials Science and Metallurgy.

In 2016, Thermo Fisher Scientific partnered with the Medical Research Council Laboratory of Molecular Biology (MRC-LMB), the University of Cambridge Nanoscience Centre and five pharmaceutical companies (Astex Pharmaceuticals, AstraZeneca, GSK, Sosei Heptares and UCB) to form the Cambridge Pharmaceutical Cryo-EM Consortium. The companies share use of the instruments in exchange for hosting them and expertise and guidance on the use of cryo-electron microscopy (cryo-EM) for early-stage drug discovery research.

Agenda:

January 28, 2019

13:00-14:00
Lunch and arrival

14:00-14:30
Coffee/tea and further arrivals

14:30-16:00
Inauguration presentations by:

        Richard Henderson
        MRC-LMB

        Harren Jhoti
        CEO, Astex Pharmaceuticals

        Professor Paul Midgley
        Head of Department, University of Cambridge Department of Materials Science and Metallurgy

        Mike Shafer
        President, Materials and Structural Analysis, Thermo Fisher Scientific

16:00-18:00
Drinks reception and tours to Krios 2 at Department of Materials Science and Metallurgy