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CROs and CDMOs at ELRIG Drug Discovery 2026
Oct 14–15, 2026 London, UK ~3k attendees Website
67 CROs and CDMOs are at ELRIG Drug Discovery 2026 — 24 presentations on the program and 56 with a booth in the exhibit hall. Most represented: Pharmaron (3 on the program), IQVIA (2 on the program), Domainex (1 on the program). 61 of them have their own page in this guide. As of Oct 8, 2026.
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| Organization | ELRIG Drug Discovery 2026 Attendance |
|---|---|
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. |
IQVIA Durham, NC | |
Clinical research and health data company whose laboratories business runs drug discovery biology, DMPK and translational assay work for clients. | Talk Wed Oct 14 12:20pm–12:50pm Panel Wed Oct 14 4:30pm–5:00pm |
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 |
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 |
Ardigen Kraków, Poland | |
AI-focused contract research company providing bioinformatics, machine learning and image-analysis services for drug discovery and precision medicine. | Chair Thu Oct 15 10:50am–10:55am Track Chair - The power of imaging in drug discovery and the clinic How imaging, from multiplexed microscopy and spatial biology to living-animal scans, plus AI analysis, speeds target validation and clinical prediction. |
CellCodex Cambridge, UK | |
Generates causal cell-perturbation data for AI drug discovery, using genome-wide screens in aged, disease-relevant human cell models. | Talk Thu Oct 15 10:55am–11:25am |
Charles River Laboratories Wilmington, Massachusetts | |
Contract research organization offering discovery, preclinical safety and research-model services to drug developers. | Talk Thu Oct 15 1:10pm–2:30pm Drug Discovery 101 - (20 years of progress) Walking through drug discovery from choosing a target to refining lead compounds, and how the work has changed over two decades. |
Digital pathology service with a network of subspecialist pathologists, providing remote diagnostic reporting and pathology support for clinical trials. | Talk Thu Oct 15 2:30pm–3:00pm |
Propath Hereford, UK | |
Molecular pathology and histopathology CRO for biopharma, offering spatial proteomics and transcriptomics, multiplex imaging and image analysis for biomarker studies. | Talk Thu Oct 15 3:30pm–4:00pm |
Whole-brain light-sheet imaging CRO that maps where drugs, neurons or pathology sit across mouse brain regions for CNS discovery. | |
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 |
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. |
FairJourney Bio Porto, Portugal | |
Antibody discovery and engineering partner taking programs from target to preclinical candidate across Porto, Cambridge and San Diego. | Booth Exhibiting at Booth S07 Wed, Oct 148:00am–7:00pmThu, Oct 158:00am–4:00pm Talk Thu Oct 15 12:25pm–12:40pm |
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