The Competence Center for Drug Discovery at the ZHAW works on a national and international level with partners from industry and academia to develop new clinical drug candidates. Our mission is to address therapeutic issues in an interdisciplinary environment and to promote the synergy of biological, chemical and medical expertise. Our core competence in medicinal chemistry enables us to work with our partners on a range of indications (e.g. cancer, infectious diseases, metabolic diseases) for the benefit of patients. 

We cover the entire chemistry driven value chain of small molecule and peptide drug discovery:

• Medicinal Chemistry
• Organic Chemistry
• Computer aided drug design
• Natural Products
• Parallel and automated organic synthesis
• Microwave assisted organic synthesis
• NMR binding studies of small molecules
• Cheminformatics
• Recombinant protein production in different expression systems
• Protein characterization
• Microbial and cellular test methods
• Culture Collection of Switzerland (www.ccos.ch)