VEGA lives because it is based on sponsors, supporters, developers and evaluators.
The developers are involved in the continuous improvement of the platform, also on the basis of the feed-back and comments from the evaluators, which use and check the platform.
Developers
Kemijski inštitut
Laboratory of Chemometrics
National Institute of Chemistry (NIC). The Laboratory of Chemometrics, headed by Dr Marjana Novič, has coordinated one and participated in several EC funded projects on QSARs.
Marjana Novič has participated in many EC funded projects that included cheminformatics for data analysis.
Kemijski inštitut provided the model for carcinogenicitiy.
School of Pharmacy - Lanzhou Medical College, Lanzhou University
School of Pharmacy founded in 1959 as the Department of Pharmacy at Lanzhou Medical College, was remerged into Lanzhou University in 2004. College currently has 60 staff, 45 of which are faculty members, including 8 professors, 17 associate professors, and 20 assistant professors.
Under the pharmacy discipline, there are six master-level secondary disciplines, i.e. medicinal chemistry, pharmacy, drug analysis, pharmacognosy, microbial and biochemical pharmacy, and pharmacology. After the first level discipline of pharmacy was approved, a joint doctoral program in medicinal chemistry with the College of Chemistry and Chemical Engineering of Lanzhou University was authorized by the Ministry of Education and started to enroll students in 2010.
The School of Pharmacy has good international cooperation and exchanges, and employed many famous foreign scholars as the Cuiying Professors or part-time professors to guide our teaching and research. Furthermore, a biopharmaceutical international scientific and technological cooperation base has been successfully applied from the Ministry of Science and Technology.
After 50 years of construction and development, the School of Pharmacy is becoming one of the most important drug research and personnel training bases in northwest region of China, and possessing strong academic influence around the world.
National Biotechnology Research Center - C.R.Bt
The Bioinformatics platform of National Biotechnology Research Center (C.R.Bt) is composed of bioinformaticians, biostatisticians and chemoinformaticians who offer a multidisciplinary expertise to support the biotechnological research divisions and students. With the skills for data analysis, data management, QSAR analysis and high performance computing. The main tasks of the Bioinformatics platform are collaborative support to biologists for bioinformatics and biostatistics, data analysis, providing advices and training in biostatistics and bioinformatics, support to high performance computing and coordination of bioinformatics activities within C.R.Bt center.