20.01.2026

IHI Project LIGAND-AI Launches to Advance Artificial Intelligence (AI)-Driven Drug Discovery through Open Science

by: SGC

Frankfurt, Germany – January 20, 2026

The new multi-sector public-private partnership funded by the Innovative Health Initiative (IHI) brings together 18 partners across nine countries to generate large open, high-quality datasets of protein–ligand interactions and use them to train artificial intelligence (AI) models capable of predicting candidate molecules as suitable binders for thousands of human proteins.

13.01.2026

SGC-Mitacs partnership to advance talent development for global research initiative

by: SGC

TORONTO, ON — The Structural Genomics Consortium (SGC) has renewed its partnership with Mitacs, a national innovation connector that supports business-academic research collaboration, to advance Target 2035 – a global research movement uniting academic, industry, and technology partners. The open science initiative aims to discover high‑quality molecules that influence how every human protein works by 2035.