Healthcare company-building profile
GSK Discovery Fast Track Challenge
GSK
AcceleratorPharma acceleratorCorporateInactive or wound down
Source-based profile
Program at a Glance
- Program type
- Accelerator
- Program category
- Pharma accelerator
- Organization
- GSK
- Organization type
- Corporate
- Location
- Philadelphia, Pennsylvania
- Company stage served
- Research or idea stage
- Cohort or participation model
- Annual competition cycles with selected winning projects; no residential cohort
- Investment or funding offered
- Not publicly documented
- Published investment terms
- In-kind access to GSK compound libraries, screening and discovery resources; no equity
- Equity or fee model
- No equity
- Clinical or hospital connection
- Not publicly documented
- Application status
- Inactive or wound down
- Founded
- 2013
Public description
About the program
The Discovery Fast Track Challenge was GSK's structured open innovation competition inviting academic and non-profit researchers in North America and Europe to submit drug discovery hypotheses. Winners received GSK screening resources and collaborative project support to translate targets toward candidate compounds. GSK ran the challenge across several annual cycles before discontinuing it.
What the program publicly emphasizes
Focus areas and features
Drug discoveryTarget validationAcademic translationHigh-throughput screening
- Category: Pharma accelerator
- Program structure: Annual competition cycles with selected winning projects; no residential cohort
- Published terms: In-kind access to GSK compound libraries, screening and discovery resources; no equity
Sources
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