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IMI European Lead Factory — democratizing access to high-throughput screening

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Nature Reviews Drug Discovery 21, 245-246 (2022)

doi: https://doi.org/10.1038/d41573-021-00196-3

Acknowledgements

The European Lead Factory has received support from the Innovative Medicines Initiative (IMI) Joint Undertaking under grant agreement no. 115489, resources of which are composed of financial contribution from the EU’s Seventh Framework Programme and EFPIA companies' in-kind contribution. This project has also received funding from the IMI-2 Joint Undertaking (JU) under grant agreement no. 806948. The JU receives support from the EU’s Horizon 2020 research and innovation programme, the EFPIA and Medicines for Malaria Venture (MMV).

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Updates & Corrections

  • Correction 24 January 2022: Andrew D. Pannifer was missing from the list of consortium authors, and this has been corrected.

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Competing Interests

The following authors are employed by companies as indicated in more detail by their affiliations: P.S.J., S.B., S.P.M, A.M., S.P.V.H., S.H., S.V.B., H.V.D.H., V.M.L., D.B., J.H., S.J., E.O., T.V., J.B., R.H.A.F., F.L., J.S.B.D.V., P.M.K.-V., V.J.M.N., K.M.O., T.R., C.P., O.E., G.P., P.B.S., J.-Y. O., D.R., S.M.K., P.W.M.R., H.V.V., E.J.A.V.W., C.V., P.N., K.B.S., L.T., D.F., M.J., N.A.B.-B., H.H., C.K., H.M., T.D., B.L., F.R.O., D.H., G.J., C.P., A.P., D.T., J.D., D.D., C.V., D.V.B. and A.D.P.

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