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Lilly is developing a growing portfolio of best in class pharmaceutical products by applying the latest research from our own laboratories and from collaborations with eminent scientific organisations worldwide. In 2003 the company's world-wide sales were more than $12 billion. Lilly employs more than 43000 people worlwide and markets medicines in 158 countries. Lilly Research Laboratories (the R&D division of the company) employs more than 8000 people from a wide variety of disciplines. The company has R&D facilities in 9 countries and currently conducts clinical trials in more then 60 countries around the world. . . Lilly's internal research efforts are focused in the following major therapeutic areas: cancer, cardiovascular diseases, endocrinology, neuroscience, gene regulation, bone biology, immunomodulation and Inflammation Compounds in late stage development, and those currently being launched have promise to address the needs of patients with sepsis, cancer, diabetes, depression, osteoporosis, erectile dysfunction, urinary incontinence and attention deficit hyperactivity disorder.. . In pursuit of innovation Lilly seeks to incorporate those cutting edge technologies which support the high quality, rapid identification and investigation of novel compounds.. . The company approach to innovation includes a commitment to the philosophy of research without walls - a stated commitment to partnership and external collaboration. Currently Lilly Research Laboratories has more than 120 active collaborations with external scientists.

Switzerland is one of the strongest biotech / pharma countries in Europe with global pharma, mature biotech and innovative start-ups, supported by world class research. The Embassy of Switzerland facilitates contacts to Swiss clusters for anyone interested in business or research partnerships.

The mission of EMBL-EBI is to: provide freely available data and bioinformatics services to all facets of the scientific community in ways that promote scientific progress; contribute to the advancement of biology through basic investigator-driven research in bioinformatics; provide advanced bioinformatics training to scientists at all levels; and help disseminate cutting-edge technologies to industry. . The research and service activities of EMBL-EBI span the entire spectrum of life science and remain at the cutting edge of the computational sciences. All our major data resources are the products of international collaborations. We work with other data providers to ensure that our data repositories, and those of our collaborators, are comprehensive and up to date. We also actively participate in international efforts to develop data standards.. . The EMBL-EBI Industry Programme engages our industrial users with the latest bioinformatics research, service development, standards activities, pre-competitive opportunities and training (www.ebi.ac.uk/industry).