September 6, 2019 I Karen Snapp
Lakeside Discovery and West Loop Innovations announce Fall 2019 RFP
CBC staff members, Karen Snapp and Corinna Kitcharoen in attendance at Lakeside Discovery and West Loop Innovations Information Sessions
Lakeside Discovery (NU) and West Loop Innovations (UIC) hosted September 4th information sessions for faculty and staff at Northwestern and UIC. These organizations are novel partnerships between Deerfield Management and the respective university, with the mission to accelerate the translation of transformative biomedical discoveries by partnering academicians and drug-discovery experts and the goal of generating new therapeutics that will benefit patients.
Both information sessions focused on the Fall 2019 Request for Proposals. Deerfield teams provided an overview of the upcoming proposal cycle, information on steps for submission, and a brief summary of the review and selection processes. The timeline for the submission cycle is identical for both Lakeside Discovery and West Loop Innovations.
| RFP open | September 3, 2019 |
| Letter of intent submissions due | October 8, 2019 |
| Pre-proposal response | December 16, 2019 |
| Full proposal due | January 24, 2020 |
| Final selection | March 16, 2020 |
Lakeside Discovery and West Loop Innovations Info Sessions. Left: Joseph Pearlberg, MD, PhD, VP of Scientific Affairs-Deerfield, and a Joint Steering Committee (JSC) member at Lakeside Discovery and West Loop Innovations. Two center images: two presentation slides listing the Lakeside Discovery (left) and the West Loop Innovations JSC members, including Jim Audia, CBC Executive Director, who is an Advisor at both partnerships. During his presentation, Joe Pearlberg made many positive comments regarding the value added to the JSC by Jim’s expertise in drug discovery. Right: William Slattery, Partner-Deerfield, and a JSC member at Lakeside Discovery and West Loop Innovations. Photos: CBC.