Dear CRO colleagues, do you know that in the CRO family, in addition to clinical CRO, pre-clinical CRO, Have you ever heard of the discovery CRO? What is drug discovery CRO? Drug discovery CRO services involve four links: target determination, model establishment, lead drug discovery and lead drug optimization. Drug discovery CRO is mainly responsible for providing target selection, new drug discovery, new drug design, drug screening and other work.

 Figure 1 CRO service contents and links of drug discovery

Data source:  according to public information

At present, there are 92 CROs involved in drug discovery services (including comprehensive CRO service companies such as Cheminco). It is mainly concentrated in Beijing, Shanghai, Guangdong and Jiangsu regions with rich innovation resources. Among them, Beijing, Shanghai region with abundant production resources, human resources and innovation resources, brought together leading drug discovery enterprises such as Kang Long into, Wuxi Cheminco, intelligent, and small and medium innovative enterprises such as Olivia, LIDI biological, Baiaositu.

Figure 2 distribution of drug discovery CRO in different regions of China

Source: Flint creation