Core Projects

Scaling User Experience in the Life Sciences

In recent years, we have seen demand for User Experience (UX) in the life sciences increase. As demand has increased UX leaders in a variety of organizations have grappled with how best to expand their UX capabilities. Join us for this webinar where we will hear from a number of our project members on their approaches to scale UX in their organizations and product lines.

CSCS Expert Community – Brexit

This webinar, with speakers from Biocair, provided an overview of the state of play around Brexit and the impact on international pharmaceutical research.

UXLS Toolkit

A toolkit to increase the adoption of user experience (UX) practices in life sciences.

cHemTS Compliance Checker

Compliance Checker is a software system with a continuously updated regulation package built to screen single chemical structures or large collections against controlled substance legislation.

Design Systems to Improve User Experience and Reduce Effort

This webinar will provide an introduction to Design Systems and give some insight into why companies are taking up the challenge of developing a Design System.

Design Systems are not only a classification of components, but a whole process that is built and maintained by a company to help them develop superior user experiences and strengthen their brand.

The Microbiome and Healthcare

The microbiome plays a crucial role in the regulation of human health. Major advances have been made in our understanding of the impact of the microbiome on drug metabolism and on a variety of diseases.

This webinar will provide an overview of the role of the microbiome with a specific focus on healthcare and will include real-life case studies covering oncology, and drug metabolism.

The Microbiome and Healthcare
Michael Zimmermann, Group Leader, EMBL

The Role of the Gut Microbiome in Tumour Growth and Response to Immunotherapy

Jackie Papkoff, CSO, Assembly Biosciences

Microbiome and Drug Metabolism With a Focus on Herbal Medicine

Manuela Pausan, Postdoc, Bayer

Panel Discussion

Manuela Pausan, Postdoc, Bayer

Jackie Papkoff, CSO, Assembly Biosciences

Michael Zimmermann, Group Leader, EMBL

Olaf Kelber, Principal Scientist Phytomedicines, Bayer

Pistoia Alliance Conference 2020: Lab of the Future

The Covid-19 pandemic has led to a step change in thinking on how research should be done. The challenges range from making labs safe for scientists, to accelerating the move towards virtualisation, digitalisation, and remote working. This webinar looks at what the Lab of the Future will look like post Covid with a special emphasis on technology, virtualisation, facilities, and workspace planning.

Introduction to Remote User Research – Capturing Insights Safely in 2020

User research is grounded on a collaborative relationship with our end users – scientists, patients, healthcare providers, or other internal colleagues. But what about when you can’t physically be with research participants – be it because of cost, time, or global pandemic? Good news – research does not have to (and should not) stop! Remote research can often take the place of more standard face-to-face methods and glean similar user insights if properly used. And what you give up in physical presence can often be made up for in quantity and/or type of data.

Quantum Computing & Pharma – Building Partnerships to Accelerate Research and Innovation

This webinar sponsored by the Pistoia Alliance and the Quantum Economic Development Consortium (QED-C) focuses on the emerging opportunities at the convergence of Quantum Computing (QC) and pharmaceutical R&D. Leading experts provide an overview of QC and of the problems and bottlenecks in medicines discovery and development that may be addressed by advances in QC.

Lab of the Future

This webinar, supported by Thermo Fisher Scientific, outlines progress on the Pistoia Alliance Lab of the Future Projects and including updates on the Methods Database and the Universal Integration Layer.