Employment opportunities
We are regularly seeking skilled organic chemists (BSc/MSc/PhD) with an entrepreneurial spirit to strengthen our team. If you are interested in working at Mercachem, please ask or send your resumé/CV to Mrs. Thea Scherpenborg. More.
Due to the continuous growth of customer demand for Mercachem's integrated drug discovery and development services, we are pleased to announce that we over the past weeks have expanded our team with seven talented employees:
Patrick Strijbos (analytical department)
Wim Zonneveld (discovery chemistry)
Carien Grotenhuis (parallel chemistry)
Herman van den Oever (discovery chemistry)
Ginger Lutteke (process research)
Sonja Hoogeveen (process research)
Hemen Ibrahim (process research)
Most of our new colleagues had previous careers at MSD in Oss and bring 6 to 17 years industrial experience to Mercachem thus further strengthening our chemistry capabilities.
Press release:
Mercachem and ProQinase obtain € 2.5 Mio EU EUROSTARS Grant
to establish
Epigenetics Drug Discovery Platform
Freiburg, Germany & Nijmegen, the Netherlands – 13 May 2013.
ProQinase
and Mercachem received a € 2.5 Mio grant from the EU’s Eurostars
program to
support their joint efforts in establishing and expanding an innovative
small
molecule drug discovery platform. (download full article)
Mercachem BV selected as one of the partners to join the newly launched €196 million pan-European drug discovery platform
Nijmegen, 7 February 2013: The European Lead Factory, a novel platform for innovative drug discovery, was launched today by an international consortium of 30 partners. This partnership, the first of its kind, is supported by the Innovative Medicines Initiative (IMI) and creates unprecedented opportunities for the discovery of new medicines by providing public partners with an ‘industry-like’ discovery platform to translate cutting-edge academic research into highquality drug lead molecules on a scale and speed that was not possible previously.
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Mercachem is awarded Best-Managed Company 2012
Nijmegen, June 29th 2012: Mercachem has officially joined the ranks of the best-managed midsized companies of the Netherlands this year. This was announced by Deloitte last week. The qualification is part of the ‘Best Managed Companies’ program, which is organised by Deloitte in cooperation with the TiasNimbas Business School and the VNO-NCW. Deloitte concluded that the group of Best Managed Companies 2012 scored high on innovative capabilities. Additionally, Mercachem received praise for people management and its corporate culture. (download full article in dutch)
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NB Health Laboratory (NBHL) and Mercachem –NBHL appoints Mercachem as medicinal chemistry partner
Sapporo, Japan and Nijmegen, the Netherlands, 21 May 2012. NBHL (Sapporo, Japan) has appointed Mercachem (Nijmegen, The Netherlands) for optimization of its inhibitor series within the CK1 Delta project. Under this agreement, NBHL will utilize the expert knowledge of Mercachem in medicinal chemistry especially in the field of kinase inhibitors, together with its efficient synthetic capabilities. The purpose of this research project is to further optimize the lead compound of NBHL towards a pre-clinical development candidate. (download full article)
Khondrion and Mercachem - industrial partners in a ZonMW PM-RARE grant focusing on developing new drugs to treat MELAS syndrome
Nijmegen, The Netherlands, 8 May 2012. A ZonMW grant of € 3.0 million has been awarded to a national consortium consisting of the Radboud University Nijmegen Medical Centre Khondrion and Mercachem, the two industrial partners, and three mitochondrial patient organizations (VSN, ESN and IMP). This grant will support an ambitious scientific and industrial collaboration to discover treatments for MELAS syndrome, a rare mitochondrial disease that affects both children and adults.
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Dr. August Wolff GmbH & Co. KG Arzneimittel and Mercachem update on drug development collaborations
Bielefeld, Germany & Nijmegen, the Netherlands - 14 March 2012. Dr. August Wolff GmbH & Co. KG Arzneimittel and Mercachem have reached important milestones in two drug development collaborations. In both projects in vivo proof of concept has been shown, moreover in one of them a preclinical candidate has been nominated. The development projects involve novel classes of molecules with potential use in dermatology. (download full article)
Mercachem announces appointment of Dr. Gerhard Müller as Senior Vice President Medicinal Chemistry
Nijmegen, the Netherlands - May 24, 2011. Mercachem is pleased to announce that Dr. Gerhard Müller has joined the management team of Mercachem as Senior Vice President Medicinal Chemistry thus supporting the strong growth of the medicinal chemistry services and projects. Gerhard will be responsible for expanding Mercachem’s activities in Medicinal Chemistry. (download full article)
Dr. August Wolff Arzneimittel GmbH & Co. KG and Mercachem B.V. start two drug development collaborations
Bielefeld, Germany & Nijmegen, the Netherlands – August 26, 2010. Dr. August Wolff GmbH & Co. KG Arzneimittel and Mercachem have started two multi-year drug development collaborations. Dr. August Wolff GmbH & Co. KG Arzneimittel have licensed a number of patents from universities that cover novel classes of molecules with potential use in dermatology. Mercachem is responsible for medicinal chemistry and project management with the goal to further improve the properties of these molecules and to develop them into clinical candidates. (download full article)
Entrepreneur of the year 2010 of Nijmegen city
On 18 May 2010 the founders of Mercachem have been awarded with the title "Entrepreneur of the year 2010 of Nijmegen city" as a successful example of knowledge based entrepreneurship. Mercachem is one of the leading CRO's in Europe with nearly 110 employees in the area of (medicinal) chemistry, small molecule library services and early process R&D.
Foto: Theo van Zwam
Mercachem participates in new international consortium to develop drugs for neglected tropical diseases
August 2009
A new consortium has been formed to boost drug development for the treatment of two deadly diseases. (download full article)
Mercachem Announces Appointment of Head of Medicinal Organic Chemistry Services
December 2007
Mercachem has appointed Dr Geert Jan Sterk as the new Head of Medicinal Chemistry Services. (download full article)
Mercachem wins the Mercator Award
June 2007
In a competition among 14 succesful University 'spin-off' companies, Mercachem was deemed to be the winner of the Knowledge Industry award! (download full article)
