Douglas Connect (DC)
Douglas Connect (DC) have many years' experience in scientific research, informatics, education and marketing, and have been involved in organising communication and knowledge management solutions since 1995. DC is a Swiss SME based close to Basel, the heart of European pharmaceutical life. We specialise in communities and networks, research, communications, collaboration solutions, consulting and training on topics of relevance to the pharmaceutical and healthcare industry.
Douglas Connect currently runs the following networks of relevance to this project:
The eCheminfo Network and Community of Practice (http://www.echeminfo.com/) is dedicated to the communication of research and development of best practices in chemoinformatics, bioinformatics and modeling of relevance to drug discovery. The network involves a diversity of subject matter expertise including experienced professionals from the life science and pharmaceutical industry, vendors, research institutes, universities and government. InnovationWell (http://www.innovationwell.net/) is a network of experts, researchers and executives with a common interest in innovation and knowledge management in the healthcare sector. The Community’s program has the goal of achieving improved outcomes in healthcare product development & delivery through cross-disciplinary use of innovative technologies, knowledge-based strategies and supporting integrated and semantic-based informatics systems.
Douglas Connect is leading the Application and Knowledge Assessment Activities for the SYNERGY FP7 ICT project on Knowledge-oriented Collaboration.
Main tasks on OpenTox:
- Coordinator of the OpenTox project
- Leader of Dissemination and Management Activities
