SGC RESEARCH LTD.

The Structural Genomics Consortium (SGC) is a global private public partnership focused on understanding the functions of all human proteins. It is an international public-private partnership incorporated as a not-for-profit organization in July 2004, with head offices in Toronto. Dedicated to open science, the SGC accelerates the distribution of new medicines by making information about human genes and proteins available in the public domain. The collaboration among a large network of scientists in academia and industry allows for all research outputs to be openly available to the scientific community. The SGC has approximately 200 scientists in six major research labs at universities in Canada, the United States, and Europe, with the largest site located at the University of Toronto. Its core mandate is to determine the 3D structures targeting human proteins of biomedical importance and proteins from human parasites that represent potential drug targets. The SGC is led by Aled Edwards at the University of Toronto.