Enrico Rossi, President of the Tuscany Region, visited Toscana Life Sciences (TLS) (www.toscanalifesciences.org) to meet the companies and the research groups that have located their activities in the spaces offered by the TLS bioincubator.
It was an important opportunity to show Rossi the main areas the companies are working on, their most recent achievements and perspectives.
At the end of the meeting, Rossi confirmed the interest of Tuscany Region to supporting TLS activities and announced the Region’s intention to establish in TLS the regional reference centre for the patenting in the Life Science sector.
Together with LDS, the following companies and research groups also participated to the event: VisMederi, Diesse, Kedrion, T4All, Pharma Integration, Polo GGB, Fondazione Umberto Di Mario, Externautics, Epigen Therapeutics, Fondazione NIBIT, Istituto Toscano Tumori, CNR.
During the meeting, Laura Maccari, LDS Project Manager, gave an overview of LDS activities, including both services in drug discovery and the development of internal research projects. LDS is the only PMI working in the Medicinal Chemistry area currently hosted at TLS.