The Association of the British Pharmaceutical Industry (ABPI) has developed a new tool to help build research relationships between the pharmaceutical industry and UK academics.
Launched at the Francis Crick Institute in London [Monday 5 June], the Library of Initiatives for Novel Collaborations (ABPI LINC) – a research database – will provide easy access to identify new collaboration opportunities.
Using the database academics and clinical researchers can more easily identify opportunities online for collaboration with the biopharmaceutical industry including funding opportunities, access to cutting-edge equipment, compounds and opportunities to build collaborative relationships.
The database also provides, for the first time, a publicly available and user-friendly central portal to see the different ways pharmaceutical companies are supporting open innovation, working with researchers across the UK both in hospitals and in universities.
You can search ABPI LINC by research stage (preclinical/clinical), type of collaboration or resource (e.g. sharing compounds, resources, funding, investigator led studies), disease area (e.g. infectious disease), or company.
For more see the ABPI website.