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ELRIG Drug Discovery 2026 Exhibitors
Oct 14–15, 2026 London, UK ~3k attendees Website
264 organizations exhibit at ELRIG Drug Discovery 2026 — 237 technology and service providers, 17 academic, government and non-profit bodies and 10 drug developers. 50 of them also present on the scientific program, with 73 presentations between them. Most represented: AstraZeneca (11 on the program), GSK (8 on the program), Pharmaron (3 on the program). As of Oct 8, 2026.
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| Organization | ELRIG Drug Discovery 2026 Attendance |
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AstraZeneca Cambridge, UK | ◆Partner |
Global biopharmaceutical company discovering and developing medicines in oncology, rare disease, and cardiovascular, renal, metabolic and respiratory disease. | Booth Exhibiting at Booth CZ01 Wed, Oct 148:00am–7:00pmThu, Oct 158:00am–4:00pm Chair Wed Oct 14 11:15am–11:20am Track Chair - CRISPR/Cas technologies from discovery to therapeutic application How CRISPR gene editing is used from finding drug targets to engineering cell and gene therapies, and where it may go next. Chair Wed Oct 14 11:15am–11:20am Track Chair - Next-gen biophysics How biophysics has shaped drug discovery from checking targets to refining lead compounds, and how newer methods can speed programmes up. Talk Wed Oct 14 11:20am–11:50am Talk Wed Oct 14 11:50am–12:20pm Automating In Vivo Antibody Discovery How a manual B-cell processing workflow was automated to reduce operator variability and raise throughput while preserving cell quality. Talk Wed Oct 14 12:20pm–12:50pm Talk Wed Oct 14 2:40pm–3:10pm Talk Wed Oct 14 3:10pm–3:45pm To PhD or not to PhD? Navigating Life Sciences careers as an ECP Whether early career scientists gain more from a doctorate or from hands-on experience, and how people actually build life science careers. Panel Wed Oct 14 4:30pm–5:00pm Talk Wed Oct 14 4:30pm–5:00pm Talk Thu Oct 15 12:40pm–1:10pm Talk Thu Oct 15 3:30pm–4:00pm |
GSK London, UK | ◆Partner |
Global biopharmaceutical company developing vaccines and specialty medicines in infectious disease, HIV, respiratory, immunology and oncology. | Booth Exhibiting at Booth CZ02 Wed, Oct 148:00am–7:00pmThu, Oct 158:00am–4:00pm Chair Wed Oct 14 11:15am–11:20am Track Chair - Engineering the cell microenvironment: Cell-based models for drug discovery How engineered cell surroundings, from three-dimensional cultures to immune-competent models, help lab assays better predict what happens in patients. Talk Wed Oct 14 11:20am–11:50am Talk Wed Oct 14 2:00pm–2:30pm Talk Wed Oct 14 2:00pm–2:30pm Talk Wed Oct 14 2:40pm–3:10pm Talk Wed Oct 14 5:30pm–6:30pm Early Career Professionals: Network Like A Boss Meeting other early career professionals in speed networking rounds to build the contacts a drug discovery career depends on. Panel Thu Oct 15 9:30am–10:15am Keynote Panel - 20 Years of Discovery: Lessons from the Past, Blueprints for the Next 20 What two decades of change in drug discovery, from high-throughput screening to AI design, teach about building the next generation of medicines. Talk Thu Oct 15 2:30pm–3:00pm |
Pharmaron Beijing, China | ◆Conference Partner |
Contract research, development and manufacturing provider covering small molecules, biologics and cell and gene therapy, with integrated discovery teams from hit to candidate. | Booth Exhibiting at Booth D12, D13 Wed, Oct 148:00am–7:00pmThu, Oct 158:00am–4:00pm Chair Thu Oct 15 10:50am–10:55am Track Chair - AI in medicinal chemistry How AI and machine learning are changing drug discovery, covering compound quality, links to lab validation and newer AI tools. Talk Thu Oct 15 11:25am–11:55am A CNS‑Focused Approach to Selective PARP1 Drug Discovery How chemists designed a selective, brain-penetrant oral inhibitor for brain cancers, aiming to avoid the blood toxicities that limit older drugs. |
LifeArc London, UK | ◆Partner |
UK medical research charity that funds and runs translational research and drug discovery to move science toward patients. | Booth Exhibiting at Booth CZ03 Wed, Oct 148:00am–7:00pmThu, Oct 158:00am–4:00pm Chair Wed Oct 14 9:20am–9:25am Talk Wed Oct 14 9:25am–10:10am |
Cancer Research Horizons London, UK | |
Innovation arm of Cancer Research UK, turning academic cancer research into drugs, diagnostics and start-ups through partnerships and licensing. | Booth Exhibiting at Booth C24 Wed, Oct 148:00am–7:00pmThu, Oct 158:00am–4:00pm Chair Wed Oct 14 11:15am–11:20am Track Chair - Targeted potency: Advances in radioligands and bioconjugates How radioligand therapies and bioconjugates deliver toxic payloads more precisely and safely to cancers that were once hard to treat. |
Domainex Cambridge, UK | |
Integrated drug discovery services partner covering target expression, hit identification and lead optimisation through to preclinical candidates. | Booth Exhibiting at Booth J34 Wed, Oct 148:00am–7:00pmThu, Oct 158:00am–4:00pm Chair Wed Oct 14 11:15am–11:20am Track Chair - Next-gen biophysics How biophysics has shaped drug discovery from checking targets to refining lead compounds, and how newer methods can speed programmes up. Talk Wed Oct 14 2:30pm–2:35pm |
Medicines Discovery Catapult Alderley Park, UK | |
UK national centre helping drug discovery entrepreneurs validate ideas and de-risk investment through its expertise, technology and national programmes. | Booth Exhibiting at Booth G28 Wed, Oct 148:00am–7:00pmThu, Oct 158:00am–4:00pm Talk Wed Oct 14 4:15pm–4:30pm Advancing Drug Discovery Through Radiopharmaceutical Innovation Why radioactive drugs that both image and treat tumours can confirm a drug reaches its target, and what manufacturing hurdles remain. |
WuXi AppTec Shanghai, China | ◆Conference Partner |
Global CRDMO providing integrated research, development and manufacturing services to pharma and biotech across Asia, Europe and North America. | Booth Exhibiting at Booth H03, H10 Wed, Oct 148:00am–7:00pmThu, Oct 158:00am–4:00pm Talk Wed Oct 14 11:50am–12:20pm Integrated Discovery of Targeted Delivery Ligands for Oligonucleotide Therapeutics Finding ring-shaped peptides that bind receptors on brain and muscle cells and carry attached siRNA into them to silence target genes. Talk Wed Oct 14 2:30pm–2:40pm |
Axxam Milan, Italy | ◆Conference Partner |
Contract research organisation offering integrated early discovery, from AI-supported target identification and validation through hit finding to hit-to-lead, with compound collections. | Booth Exhibiting at Booth G06, G07 Wed, Oct 148:00am–7:00pmThu, Oct 158:00am–4:00pm |
◆Partner | |
UK membership network, founded in 2020, supporting Black and minority-ethnic students and professionals in science and medicine. | Booth Exhibiting at Booth K30 Wed, Oct 148:00am–7:00pmThu, Oct 158:00am–4:00pm Chair Wed Oct 14 9:20am–9:25am |
Carterra Salt Lake City, Utah | ◆Conference Partner |
Makes high-throughput SPR platforms (LSA, LSA-XT, Ultra, Vega) for label-free screening and characterisation of large and small molecules. | Booth Exhibiting at Booth G08 Wed, Oct 148:00am–7:00pmThu, Oct 158:00am–4:00pm Talk Wed Oct 14 11:50am–12:20pm HT-SPR Technology as a Data Engine for AI-Driven Drug Design How high-throughput surface plasmon resonance binding measurements can generate the large, consistent datasets that train AI models for drug design. |
CAS Columbus, Ohio | |
Division of the American Chemical Society curating a large body of scientific data and offering knowledge-management and AI solutions to research organisations. | Booth Exhibiting at Booth K17 Wed, Oct 148:00am–7:00pmThu, Oct 158:00am–4:00pm Talk Thu Oct 15 11:55am–12:10pm |
◆Conference Partner | |
Lab software combining Mosaic sample management with Labguru inventory, registration, ELN and LIMS, plus automation, orchestration and AI tools. | Booth Exhibiting at Booth D03 Wed, Oct 148:00am–7:00pmThu, Oct 158:00am–4:00pm Talk Thu Oct 15 11:25am–11:55am Rethinking Sample Management in the Age of AI How lab sample management systems must change so AI agents can query sample data and start work across connected lab tools. |
Lonza Basel, Switzerland | |
Swiss life science group; its Bioscience unit supplies cell culture and discovery tools, quality control tests and biomanufacturing software. | Booth Exhibiting at Booth J25 Wed, Oct 148:00am–7:00pmThu, Oct 158:00am–4:00pm Talk Wed Oct 14 12:20pm–12:50pm |
Microbiology Society London, UK | ◆Partner |
Membership charity and not-for-profit publisher for microbiologists in academia, industry and healthcare. | Booth Exhibiting at Booth H05 Wed, Oct 148:00am–7:00pmThu, Oct 158:00am–4:00pm Talk Thu Oct 15 10:55am–11:25am |
Nuclera Cambridge, UK | ◆Conference Partner |
eProtein Discovery benchtop system pairing cell-free expression with digital microfluidics to screen and produce proteins within two days. | Booth Exhibiting at Booth H04, H09 Wed, Oct 148:00am–7:00pmThu, Oct 158:00am–4:00pm Talk Wed Oct 14 11:50am–12:20pm |
Royal Society of Chemistry London, UK | ◆Partner |
UK professional body and publisher for the chemical sciences. | Booth Exhibiting at Booth K23 Wed, Oct 148:00am–7:00pmThu, Oct 158:00am–4:00pm Chair Thu Oct 15 10:50am–10:55am Track Chair - AI in medicinal chemistry How AI and machine learning are changing drug discovery, covering compound quality, links to lab validation and newer AI tools. |
SLAS Oak Brook, IL | ◆Partner |
Global society of more than 24,000 scientists and technology providers focused on laboratory automation and screening. | Booth Exhibiting at Booth C17 Wed, Oct 148:00am–7:00pmThu, Oct 158:00am–4:00pm Chair Thu Oct 15 10:50am–10:55am Track Chair - From sample to translation: Solving the practical challenges of modern drug discovery How laboratories source, store and handle biological samples, and why that work shapes data quality and whether findings reach patients. |
Synthace London, UK | |
Software for designing, automating and analysing complex biology experiments, including design of experiments, producing structured AI-ready data. | Booth Exhibiting at Booth B19 Wed, Oct 148:00am–7:00pmThu, Oct 158:00am–4:00pm Chair Wed Oct 14 11:15am–11:20am Track Chair - Integrating experimental design, lab-in-the-loop and AI towards translatable discovery How careful experiment planning, automation and AI can be combined across lab workflows to make assays and predictive models more reliable. |
Tecan Männedorf, Switzerland | ◆Conference Partner |
Swiss maker of automated liquid handling and laboratory instruments for research, drug discovery and clinical diagnostics. | Booth Exhibiting at Booth B03, B04 Wed, Oct 148:00am–7:00pmThu, Oct 158:00am–4:00pm Talk Thu Oct 15 11:25am–11:55am The Biology Is Only as Good as the Workflow: Multiomics Strategies for Biomarker Discovery and Utilisation in Precision Medicine Why reading a patient's genes, proteins and metabolites together, with reliable automated sample handling, is needed to match drugs to individual biology. |
Evotec Hamburg, Germany | |
Drug discovery and development partner offering CRO and CDMO services, integrated programs and strategic partnerships from target to clinic. | Booth Exhibiting at Booth C33 Wed, Oct 148:00am–7:00pmThu, Oct 158:00am–4:00pm Talk Wed Oct 14 12:05pm–12:20pm A Transcriptomics‑AI Framework for Early Detection and De‑Risking of Nephrotoxicity How gene activity readouts combined with machine learning flagged kidney-damaging compounds early and pointed to the mechanisms behind the injury. Talk Wed Oct 14 4:15pm–4:30pm Biosensor based screening of large lead like chemical libraries in pools - an alternative biophysical approach for hit identification in small molecule drug discovery Screening large pools of lead-like compounds with surface plasmon resonance and related biosensors to find direct binders and measure their binding behaviour. |
Generates human-relevant evidence for drug development by combining tissue models, organ-on-chip systems, real-time sensing, automation and AI analysis. | Booth Exhibiting at Booth K25 Wed, Oct 148:00am–7:00pmThu, Oct 158:00am–4:00pm Talk Wed Oct 14 2:35pm–2:40pm |
Bio-Rad Hercules, California | |
Develops and sells life science research and clinical diagnostic products, including droplet digital PCR for translational and clinical work. | Booth Exhibiting at Booth C13, C28 Wed, Oct 148:00am–7:00pmThu, Oct 158:00am–4:00pm Talk Thu Oct 15 12:25pm–12:40pm Precision That Translates: ddPCR from Discovery to Clinic How droplet digital polymerase chain reaction counts molecules precisely enough to carry biomarker findings into clinical and manufacturing checks. |
bit.bio Cambridge, UK | |
Programmes iPSCs into specific human cell types with its opti-ox technology, selling ioCells including disease-model, CRISPR-ready and reporter lines. | Booth Exhibiting at Booth K04 Wed, Oct 148:00am–7:00pmThu, Oct 158:00am–4:00pm Talk Wed Oct 14 2:35pm–2:40pm |
Bruker Billerica, Massachusetts | |
Showing its biosensor range: SPR systems, switchSENSE and single-cell interaction cytometry for measuring binding kinetics, including on living cells. | Booth Exhibiting at Booth K14 Wed, Oct 148:00am–7:00pmThu, Oct 158:00am–4:00pm Talk Wed Oct 14 12:50pm–12:55pm |
Cell Signaling Technology Danvers, Massachusetts | |
Scientist-run company supplying antibodies, assay kits, reagents and services for life science research. | Booth Exhibiting at Booth H12 Wed, Oct 148:00am–7:00pmThu, Oct 158:00am–4:00pm Talk Wed Oct 14 2:30pm–2:35pm |
Collaborative Drug Discovery Burlingame, California | |
Web-based CDD Vault software for registering compounds and biologics, managing assay data and inventory, and sharing results with partners. | Booth Exhibiting at Booth G04 Wed, Oct 148:00am–7:00pmThu, Oct 158:00am–4:00pm Talk Wed Oct 14 4:15pm–4:30pm AI-Ready Drug Discovery with CDD Vault: Why Your Scientific Data Strategy Matters When Defining Your AI Strategy Why scattered research data holds back AI in drug discovery, and how one central, well-organised record of chemistry and biology experiments helps. |
Contract research organization providing integrated drug discovery and development services across chemistry, biology and therapeutic areas. | Booth Exhibiting at Booth F14 Wed, Oct 148:00am–7:00pmThu, Oct 158:00am–4:00pm Talk Thu Oct 15 12:25pm–12:40pm From Complexity to Clarity: Workflow Automation for Spatial Biology at Scale How standardised, automated imaging workflows make it practical to map proteins and cell types across whole tissue slides reproducibly at scale. |
Cube Biotech Monheim am Rhein, Germany | |
Membrane protein specialist offering copolymer stabilization reagents, protein production, and biophysical and cryo-EM structural services. | Booth Exhibiting at Booth K09 Wed, Oct 148:00am–7:00pmThu, Oct 158:00am–4:00pm Talk Wed Oct 14 2:30pm–2:35pm |
Genome engineering partner making knockout, knock-in and tagged cell lines and selling CRISPR knockout kits and arrayed libraries. | Booth Exhibiting at Booth H02 Wed, Oct 148:00am–7:00pmThu, Oct 158:00am–4:00pm Talk Wed Oct 14 12:50pm–12:55pm |
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