Nottingham Uni to work with Optibrium

Optibrium develops software for drug discovery. The company is making its StarDrop software available to some 4th year MSci Chemistry project students at Nottingham University as part of their training in modern drug discovery. They will use it to assist with the design of potential new candidate compounds for integrin inhibition in fibrotic diseases and malaria, as part of their collaboration with GSK. Applying Optibrium’s StarDrop software and its unique drug discovery capabilities will enable the students to characterise properties for known drugs, understand the structure-activity relationships in existing project data and then design new candidate compounds using industry-leading predictive models.
Business Science Fellow in Medicinal Chemistry at the GSK Carbon Neutral Laboratories for Sustainable Chemistry, University of Nottingham, Thomas McInally, said: “Teaching industry-relevant skills and giving students access to the very latest technologies are critical to develop the next generation of successful drug discovery researchers. Optibrium is supporting us in achieving this by providing access to their world-class StarDrop software and considerable expertise in medicinal chemistry.”