Vernalis (R&D)
Drug discovery R&D services for pharma and biotech partners, from protein production to pre-clinical candidates
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- New on EvolcAdded 2026-10-28
About Vernalis (R&D)
Vernalis (R&D) Limited runs drug discovery programmes with pharmaceutical and biotech partners. Its capabilities include protein expression and purification, hit identification and assays, biophysics and structural biology (NMR, X-ray crystallography), medicinal and synthetic chemistry, flow chemistry, cell biology, DMPK and computational chemistry. Hit series are identified through fragment-based methods, DNA-encoded library (DEL) technology and medium-throughput biochemical screening.
Its customers are pharmaceutical and biotech companies. Named collaborators include Servier, Pierre Fabre, Genentech and Lundbeck. Collaborations range from long-term, multi-target projects to short, discrete pieces of work, and can cover anything from gene to candidate.
The company was founded in 1986 and works from laboratories at Granta Park, near Cambridge, UK. Its open-source Vernalis KNIME nodes were the most downloaded extension in the KNIME community in 2023, according to the website.
Product: Contract drug discovery collaborations covering protein science, hit identification, medicinal chemistry, structural biology and DMPK.
Jobs at Vernalis (R&D)
Leadership
- Clare Searle · Finance Director and Joint Site LeadSource: company website
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