Our strategy has been to tailor our organization and its operations to match the
priorities and the unique capabilities of an academic research center and to build
upon the framework of inter-institutional collaboration embodied in the GCC. The
overall goal has been to embed within each of the GCC institutions the capability
of supporting high throughput and high content screening research projects
through an integrated program of specialized equipment and expertise that would
be available to individual researchers and research groups. In addition the
Chemical Genomics Consortium has established a Central High-throughput
Screening Laboratory capable of serving as a Core Lab to support large screens
for researchers from all the GCC institutions. A special emphasis of the Chemical
Genomics Consortium has been on the development of a specialized capability
in the application of cell-based imaging technologies to chemical genomics
research. As an academic research program, we are interested in exploring
how these new technologies can be applied to “non-traditional” targets and to
complex biological processes to develop new tools to probe the function of the
genome.