ELRIG Drug Discovery 2026 has ended. This guide stays up as the record of who was there. Next: ELRIG DD 2027, Oct 19–20, 2027 in Liverpool

Universities, institutes and hospitals at ELRIG Drug Discovery 2026

Oct 14–15, 2026 London, UK ~3k attendees Website

27 universities, institutes and hospitals are at ELRIG Drug Discovery 2026 — 35 presentations on the program and 1 with a booth in the exhibit hall. Most represented: University College London (3 on the program), The Francis Crick Institute (3 on the program), Imperial College London (2 on the program). 9 of them have their own page in this guide. As of Oct 8, 2026.

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Organization	ELRIG Drug Discovery 2026 Attendance
University College London London, UK
ucl.ac.uk Academic & healthcare Public research university in London.	Talk Wed Oct 14 3:45pm–4:15pm Therapeutic application of “ready-made” base-edited CAR T cells in leukaemia Tech Theatre CRISPR/Cas technologies from discovery to therapeutic application Talk Thu Oct 15 12:40pm–1:10pm Mindful Conversations: Building Trust with Black Communities as a Foundation for Inclusive Dementia Research Exhibition Hall Theatre Inclusive translational approaches to accelerate equitable neuroscience drug development Talk Thu Oct 15 3:00pm–3:30pm Bridging the Translation Gap: How Core Facilities Turn High‑Dimensional Cytometry Into Clinically Meaningful Outcomes Auditorium 1 From multi-omics to clinical outcomes: Insights for drug development
The Francis Crick Institute London, UK
crick.ac.uk Academic & healthcare Biomedical research institute in London.	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. Tech Theatre with AstraZeneca Talk Wed Oct 14 11:20am–11:50am The drugs are in the details: A microscopy-based CRISPR screen reveals unexpected vulnerabilities of a neglected parasitic disease Tech Theatre CRISPR/Cas technologies from discovery to therapeutic application
Imperial College London London, UK
imperial.ac.uk Academic & healthcare London research university in science, engineering, medicine and business.	Talk Thu Oct 15 11:55am–12:25pm Beyond Protein Expression: Singel-Cell Spatial Protein Organization in Autoimmune Disease Auditorium 1 From multi-omics to clinical outcomes: Insights for drug development Talk Thu Oct 15 3:00pm–3:30pm Developing a Drug Pipeline for a Multi-arm Multi-stage Platform Trial in Clinical Alzheimer’s Disease Exhibition Hall Theatre Inclusive translational approaches to accelerate equitable neuroscience drug development
UK Dementia Research Institute London, UK
ukdri.ac.uk Academic & healthcare National research institute studying dementia and neurodegenerative disease through centres hosted at UK universities.	Chair Thu Oct 15 10:50am–10:55am Track Chair - Inclusive translational approaches to accelerate equitable neuroscience drug development What it takes to move neurological drugs through clinical trials, from trial design and patient grouping to diverse enrolment and regulatory expectations. Exhibition Hall Theatre with Northumbria University Talk Thu Oct 15 10:55am–11:25am From High throughput Phenotypic Drug Screening to Clinical Trials: Advancing ALS/MND Therapeutics Exhibition Hall Theatre Inclusive translational approaches to accelerate equitable neuroscience drug development
University College Cork Cork, Ireland
ucc.ie Academic & healthcare Public research university in Cork, Ireland.	Chair Thu Oct 15 10:50am–10:55am Track Chair - From microbes to medicines How microbes, including ones that cannot be grown in the lab, are mined for new drugs that tackle resistance and treatment gaps. Tech Theatre with University of Huddersfield Talk Thu Oct 15 11:55am–12:25pm Bringing phenotyping and genomic approaches together to identify new targets for antimicrobial development Tech Theatre From microbes to medicines
University of Edinburgh Edinburgh, UK
ed.ac.uk Academic & healthcare Public research university in Edinburgh, Scotland.	Talk Wed Oct 14 2:00pm–2:30pm Intratarget Microdosing in the human lung to accelerate therapeutic development Exhibition Hall Theatre Translating ideas into therapies - Navigating the challenges Talk Thu Oct 15 3:00pm–3:30pm Deep Machine Learning on Chemical Synthesis Auditorium 3 AI in medicinal chemistry
University of Oxford Oxford, UK
ox.ac.uk Academic & healthcare Collegiate research university in Oxford.	Talk Wed Oct 14 3:45pm–4:15pm Decoding how immune receptors and extracellular vesicles build lymphocyte networks using synthetic cells, lymphoid organoids, and tumoroids Auditorium 1 Engineering the cell microenvironment: Cell-based models for drug discovery Talk Thu Oct 15 11:55am–12:25pm From Mechanism to Evidence: Cardiovascular Imaging Biomarkers and Surrogate Endpoints in Drug Development Auditorium 2 The power of imaging in drug discovery and the clinic
Wellcome Sanger Institute Hinxton, UK
sanger.ac.uk Academic & healthcare Genomics research institute near Cambridge, UK.	Talk Wed Oct 14 2:00pm–2:30pm A CRISPR way to understand neurodegeneration Tech Theatre CRISPR/Cas technologies from discovery to therapeutic application Talk Thu Oct 15 10:55am–11:25am Building a tumour-derived organoid biobank: logistics and technology for multi-omic and functional screening at scale Auditorium 4 From sample to translation: Solving the practical challenges of modern drug discovery
AU ARUK UCL Drug Discovery Institute London, UK
Academic & healthcare Drug discovery institute at University College London, funded by Alzheimer's Research UK, pursuing new targets for neurodegenerative disease.	Panel Thu Oct 15 3:30pm–4:00pm Panel session - Who Gets to Benefit? Making Neuroscience Drug Development Truly Equitable Exhibition Hall Theatre Inclusive translational approaches to accelerate equitable neuroscience drug development
Cardiff University Cardiff, UK
cardiff.ac.uk Academic & healthcare Research university in Wales.	Talk Thu Oct 15 3:00pm–3:30pm Targeted and Armed: Repurposing Adenovirus for In Situ Cancer Immunotherapy Tech Theatre From microbes to medicines
CERM, University of Florence Florence, Italy
cerm.unifi.it Academic & healthcare Magnetic resonance centre of the University of Florence and a major NMR infrastructure for structural biology, including in-cell NMR.	Talk Wed Oct 14 2:40pm–3:10pm In-cell NMR: a powerful approach for drug discovery Auditorium 4 Next-gen biophysics
CNPEM Campinas, Brazil
cnpem.br Academic & healthcare Brazil's national research center for energy and materials, running open-access facilities including automated high-throughput and high-content screening for drug discovery.	Talk Wed Oct 14 11:20am–11:50am Biodiversity at Scale Auditorium 1 Engineering the cell microenvironment: Cell-based models for drug discovery
Ellison Institute of Technology Oxford, UK
eit.org Academic & healthcare Oxford research institute translating science into solutions in health, food, climate and AI, including a Generative Biology Institute.	Talk Wed Oct 14 4:30pm–5:00pm Combining high throughput native MS screening with synthetic biology to target intricate proteins Auditorium 4 Next-gen biophysics
FG Functional Genomics Centre Cambridge, UK
Academic & healthcare AstraZeneca and Cancer Research Horizons collaboration running CRISPR screens to find and validate cancer drug targets.	Talk Wed Oct 14 12:20pm–12:50pm Application of CRISPR screens for therapeutic target identification and validation in cancer drug discovery Tech Theatre CRISPR/Cas technologies from discovery to therapeutic application
Karlsruhe Institute of Technology Karlsruhe, Germany
	Talk Thu Oct 15 12:10pm–12:25pm Flash Poster Presentation - Miniaturized Solid-Phase Diversification of a Thiophene Scaffold for Direct-to-Biology Workflows Auditorium 3 AI in medicinal chemistry
Karolinska Institutet Stockholm, Sweden
	Talk Thu Oct 15 2:30pm–3:00pm Beyond Viability: Advanced Disease Models for Functional Discovery in Ovarian Cancer Auditorium 2 The power of imaging in drug discovery and the clinic
Liverpool School of Tropical Medicine Liverpool, UK
	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. Learning Zone with GSK