The Karolinska Institutet is the largest center for medical education and research in Sweden and the home of the Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine. The Karolinska Institute consists of 22 departments and 600 research groups which are dedicated to improving human health through research and higher education.
The Istituto di Ricerche Farmacologiche Mario Negri is a non-profit biomedical research organization with major activities on drug research. It was established in Milan in 1961 and there are now research units in Bergamo, Ranica (near Bergamo) and Santa Maria Imbaro (near Chieti).
The Institute’s main goal is to contribute to the defence of human health and life.
Christoph Helma (CH) established In Silico Toxicology (www.in-silico.ch) as a spin-off company from the University Freiburg (Germany), that provides research, consulting and scientific programming services in the area of predictive toxicology.