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Advancing drug discovery through #AI, #OpenScience, and #Collaboration between academia, industry, and non-profits to create accessible treatments for all. More about us at conscience.ca

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Conscience @conscience-network.bsky.social · 13/04/2026
Our CEO, Peng Fu, and Chief Policy and Partnerships Officer @richardgold.bsky.social are in Paris this week for the OECD Workshop on Open Science and Innovation Partnerships. We’re excited to hear how the discussions unfold and to learn from the insights and lessons emerging from the workshop!
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Conscience @conscience-network.bsky.social · 13/04/2026
We're pleased to share Conscience's first Annual Report! In 2025, we made significant progress in advancing open science drug discovery by funding projects, expanding the CACHE Challenges, providing advisory services, and launching BEACON. Read the report here: conscience.ca/reports/
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Reports - Conscience
Conscience Annual Reports 2025 Conscience’s first Annual Report highlights our progress in advancing open science drug discovery, from early-stage research through to clinical translation, while stren...
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Conscience @conscience-network.bsky.social · 29/10/2025
Drug discovery is becoming slower and more expensive, but collaboration, and open science can change that. In this new op-ed, Conscience CEO Peng Fu and @estrid-j.bsky.social argue that the real breakthroughs will come from rethinking how science gets done. 🔗 www.ddw-online.com/from-risk-to...
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From risk to resilience - Drug Discovery World (DDW)
Peng Fu, CEO, and Estrid Jakobsen, Communications Lead at Conscience, explore how creativity and open science are transforming drug discovery.
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Conscience @conscience-network.bsky.social · 01/10/2025
On Oct 16, @dylan-re.bsky.social and @richardgold.bsky.social will be hosting an infosession on our Open Science Advisory Services program, which provides funding to help you hire the expertise you need for your open science project. Learn more and register here: conscience.ca/event/open-s...
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Conscience @conscience-network.bsky.social · 15/09/2025
The deadline to apply for CACHE Challenge #7 has been extended to October 10! This challenge focuses on discovering selective inhibitors of PGK2, a promising target for non-hormonal contraception. 🇨🇦 Canadian participants can access reimbursement funds! Learn more here: conscience.ca/event/cache7/
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Conscience @conscience-network.bsky.social · 11/09/2025
⏳Just a few days left to apply to join CACHE Challenge #7: Finding selective inhibitors of PGK2 for non-hormonal contraception. Don't miss this chance to test your models with high-quality experimental data! Deadline: September 15, 2025 Learn more and apply here: conscience.ca/event/cache7/
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CACHE Challenge #7: Finding selective inhibitors of PGK2 for non-hormonal contraception - Conscience
We’re pleased to launch the seventh CACHE Challenge, which is now accepting applications. The deadline to apply is September 15, 2025. The CACHE Challenges, made possible by the Government of Canada’s...
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Conscience @conscience-network.bsky.social · 29/07/2025
This new op-ed by @richardgold.bsky.social describes how sequencing #OpenScience before #IntellectualProperty companies can accelerate innovation while reducing cost and risk. It features our CACHE Challenges as an example of an open science initiative that can greatly benefit participating SMEs!
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Le Neuro (Institut-Hôpital neurologique de Montréal) @theneuro.bsky.social · 08/07/2025
Are you leading an #OpenScience initiative advancing the field of #neuroscience? Don’t miss this opportunity to be recognized for your contributions. Submit your application for the Neuro-Irv and Helga Cooper Foundation Open Science Prizes today! 👉Apply now! -link in comments #neurology #datasharing
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Conscience @conscience-network.bsky.social · 17/07/2025
In this op-ed, @richardgold.bsky.social and co-authors argue that Canada must take advantage of instability in U.S. research funding by rethinking how universities support innovation - shifting away from patents toward long-term partnerships and open science. www.nationalobserver.com/2025/07/11/o...
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Canadian universities must do a better job encouraging private sector research
Canadian universities have an excellent track record of creating and preserving knowledge, but a poor one for helping innovators to develop products and services.
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Matthieu Schapira @mattschap.bsky.social · 16/06/2025
CACHE4 results are out! All previously known CBLCB ligands shared the same scaffold. Congrats to Keunwan Park who successfully designed a chemically novel series, to the experimental team at @thesgc.bsky.social and thanks to @conscience-network.bsky.social for greasing the wheels! bit.ly/4mYNe3r
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Conscience @conscience-network.bsky.social · 16/06/2025
🚨 Results of CACHE Challenge #4 are in! 🚨 This challenge focused on identifying novel hits for CBLB, a cancer immunotherapy target that has so far proven difficult to identify novel chemical scaffold for. Read the press release here: conscience.ca/news/cache-c...
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CACHE Challenge #4 identifies a novel 'hit' for a cancer immunotherapy target  - Conscience
In our fourth CACHE Challenge, researchers from across the globe used computational methods to predict molecules to bind CBLB, a cancer immunotherapy target. The top-performing team identified a molec...
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Conscience @conscience-network.bsky.social · 10/06/2025
Are you working on an open science drug discovery project that could benefit from expert advice on innovation, IP, commercialization, or business planning? Our new Open Science Advisory Services program helps you hire third-party advisors to move your work forward. 🔗 conscience.ca/open-science...
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Open Science Advisory Services (OSAS) - Conscience
About OSAS The Open Science Advisory Services (OSAS) program provides funding to organizations and companies seeking third party advisory services related to advancing open science drug discovery. The...
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Conscience @conscience-network.bsky.social · 02/06/2025
If you weren’t able to attend our Symposium on Open Drug Discovery in Montreal in April, you’re in luck - the recordings are now on YouTube and the slides are on Zenodo! 🎥 Watch the recordings: www.youtube.com/playlist?lis... 📄 Access the slides: zenodo.org/communities/...
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Conscience Symposium on Open Drug Discovery 2025 - YouTube
Recordings of the talks that took place at the Conscience Symposium on Open Drug Discovery on April 7-8, 2025 in Montreal.
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Conscience @conscience-network.bsky.social · 28/05/2025
✨ Big news! ✨ We’re thrilled to welcome Peng Fu as our new CEO. Peng brings deep experience across biotech, finance, and law, and we’re looking forward to seeing how his leadership brings us closer to a future where no patient is left behind. 🔗 Read the press release: conscience.ca/news/peng-fu...
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Peng Fu Appointed CEO of Conscience - Conscience
We’re excited to announce that Peng Fu has joined Conscience as our new Chief Executive Officer. He brings deep experience in biotech, finance, and law, and we’re looking forward to seeing how his lea...
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E. Richard Gold @richardgold.bsky.social · 27/05/2025
New from me & @vanbergheneu.bsky.social‬: Canada has a chance to lead on AI policy and data governance at the 2025 G7 Leaders’ Summit theconversation.com/canada-has-a...
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Canada has a chance to lead on AI policy and data governance at the 2025 G7 Leaders’ Summit
Canada must back its rhetoric on AI and digital innovation with action that resonates at home and abroad.
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Le Neuro (Institut-Hôpital neurologique de Montréal) @theneuro.bsky.social · 13/05/2025
YCharos is an innovative #OpenScience project led by researchers at The Neuro. Its data are now openly available on F1000 Research. Learn how YCharos is improving antibody validation by attending this free webinar on May 29.
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Conscience @conscience-network.bsky.social · 07/05/2025
Can open science fuel growth? In Canadian SME Magazine, our @richardgold.bsky.social argues it can—offering a lower-cost, collaborative path for early-stage innovation. Read it here: canadiansme.ca/canadian-sme...
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Conscience @conscience-network.bsky.social · 28/04/2025
We’re still energized after the 2025 Conscience Symposium on Open Drug Discovery earlier this month! Thank you to everyone who joined us in Montreal to explore how open science is shaping the future of drug discovery. Check out highlights and photos from the event: conscience.ca/news/reflect...
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Reflecting on the Conscience Symposium on Open Drug Discovery - Conscience
The 2025 Conscience Symposium on Open Drug Discovery took place in Montreal on April 7 and 8, 2025, at the Society for Arts and Technology—and we’re proud to share that it was a great success! 126 val...
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E. Richard Gold @richardgold.bsky.social · 10/04/2025
The future of AI-drug discovery hinges on large, high-quality, standards-based datasets. No country or firm can build this alone. We need to construct datasets together in the open: www.science.org/doi/10.1126/... @tridentpct.bsky.social @conscience-network.bsky.social @mcgilluniversity.bsky.social
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AI drug development’s data problem
The future of drug discovery may be artificial intelligence (AI), but its present is not. AI is in its infancy in the field. To help AI mature, developers need nonproprietary, open, large, high-qualit...
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Stephanie Gallant, PhD @chemgallant.bsky.social · 08/04/2025
Great first day of the @conscience-network.bsky.social Symposium on Open Drug Discovery in MTL ✨️ Highlight was catching @dereklowe.bsky.social present a wonderful keynote – super exciting after following his blog and insights for many years! See ya tomorrow for day 2! 🧠
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E. Richard Gold @richardgold.bsky.social · 07/04/2025
Machine learning does not create knowledge, says Derek Lowe at #ConscienceSymposium2025 @conscience-network.bsky.social
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E. Richard Gold @richardgold.bsky.social · 07/04/2025
Anke Mueller-Fahrnow, Chair of @conscience-network.bsky.social Board, open the #ConscienceSymposium2025 in Montreal
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Conscience @conscience-network.bsky.social · 03/04/2025
We've extended the registration deadline for our Symposium on Open Drug Discovery until the start of the event on Monday! Register now for an exciting program of talks, panels, and workshops showcasing how open science and innovation are driving drug discovery. event.fourwaves.com/consciencesy...
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Conscience @conscience-network.bsky.social · 01/04/2025
✨New session✨ at our Symposium on Open Drug Discovery: Developing Medicines through Open Science (DMOS) Funded Project Presentations. Featuring Peter Sampson, Sonya MacParland, this session will highlight the first three projects funded by the DMOS program Register here: conscience.ca/symposium2025
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TRIDENT Preclinical Trials @tridentpct.bsky.social · 31/03/2025
New Globe and Mail op-ed by @conscience-network.bsky.social and TRIDENT lead Dr. Richard Gold, "The Key to Winning the Trade War is Doubling Down on Research," linked via our site Open Sci Pubs page linked here 👇🌎🗞️: www.tridentpreclinicaltrials.org/oapubs #NFRF #openscience #research #TRIDENT
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Conscience @conscience-network.bsky.social · 25/03/2025
🚀One week left to register for our Symposium on Open Drug Discovery! Join us in Montreal April 7-8 for an exciting program showcasing how open science and AI are driving drug discovery. Some sessions are already sold out, so register now! Register by April 2nd: conscience.ca/symposium2025
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Conscience Symposium on Open Drug Discovery - Submission and registration are open! - Conscience
Registration is now open for the second annual Conscience Symposium on Open Drug Discovery! Join us at the Society for Arts and Technology in Montreal on April 7-8, 2025, for two days of insightful ta...
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Conscience @conscience-network.bsky.social · 20/03/2025
✨ Symposium session reveal ✨ AI-assisted Drug Discovery: Benchmarking the Field - Gustavo Stolovitzky and @caswognum.nl will explore how benchmarking can drive better, more reliable AI tools for drug discovery and biomedicine. Learn more and register here: conscience.ca/symposium2025
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Conscience @conscience-network.bsky.social · 20/03/2025
✨ Symposium session reveal ✨ Our keynote speaker, @dereklowe.bsky.social will give a talk entitled “AI-assisted Drug Discovery: Reality and Expectations”, providing a no-nonsense look at the role of AI in drug discovery. Learn more and register here: conscience.ca/symposium2025
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Conscience @conscience-network.bsky.social · 20/03/2025
✨ Symposium session reveal ✨ Innovating Openly: Balancing Open Science and IP in Drug Discovery - @richardgold.bsky.social will dispel the myth that market exclusivity and open sharing are incompatible. Learn more and register here: conscience.ca/symposium2025
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Conscience @conscience-network.bsky.social · 17/03/2025
Do you believe that #AI will transform #DrugDiscovery and are you tired of seeing new medicines for #RareDiseases or infectious diseases shelved? Don’t miss our Symposium on Open Drug Discovery, April 7-8, 2025 in Montreal! Learn more and register by April 2nd: event.fourwaves.com/consciencesy...
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Matthieu Schapira @mattschap.bsky.social · 10/03/2025
The CACHE #2 preprint is now online: bit.ly/3DyCmHN Active learning and fragment growing delivered confirmed hits. A citizen scientist using the Fold-it gaming interface designed the top compound! Kudos to Sasha and Madhushika @thesgc.bsky.social at the bench. @conscience-network.bsky.social
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Conscience @conscience-network.bsky.social · 07/03/2025
✨ Symposium session reveal ✨ Creating the Data We Need for Open Drug Discovery - @bhaibeka.bsky.social and Oren Kraus @recursionpharma.bsky.social will introduce AIRCHECK and RxRx, two leading initiatives filling the data gap in AI-assisted drug discovery. Register here: conscience.ca/symposium2025
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Conscience @conscience-network.bsky.social · 07/03/2025
✨ Symposium session reveal ✨ Driving the Field Through Computational Drug Discovery - @mattschap.bsky.social and @jenkescheen.bsky.social will share how computational drug discovery challenges are sparking change in how we discover medicines! Register here: conscience.ca/symposium2025
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E. Richard Gold @richardgold.bsky.social · 05/03/2025
Canada needs leadership to build its economy, currently under attack. It will not come from university administrators or research budget-slashing governments. It will come from Canadians who want to invest in a brighter economic future. @tridentpct.bsky.social @conscience-network.bsky.social
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MedChemica @medchemica.com · 05/03/2025
5 weeks to go🚀 @griffen-ed.bsky.social is presenting at the @conscience-network.bsky.social Symposium. Talk Title; "Balancing Open Science and Intellectual Property to Discover and Develop Medicines” @asapdiscovery.bsky.social Register now: conscience.ca/symposium202...
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Conscience @conscience-network.bsky.social · 03/03/2025
📣 5 days left to submit an abstract for our Symposium on Open Drug Discovery! 📣 Don't miss this opportunity to give a 3-minute flash talk in front of leaders from academia and industry and potentially win a prize worth $250! Deadline March 7. Register and submit here: conscience.ca/symposium2025
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Conscience @conscience-network.bsky.social · 03/03/2025
✨ Symposium session reveal ✨ Patients and Communities Driving Drug Discovery through Open Science - This session explores the impact of patient-led initiatives and highlights a successful open science partnership with a patient group in Quebec. Register here: conscience.ca/symposium2025
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Conscience @conscience-network.bsky.social · 27/02/2025
#RareDiseaseDay tomorrow, we are proud to announce the first three recipients of our Developing Medicines through Open Science (DMOS) program! These projects focus on three rare diseases that currently lack effective treatments. Read the press release here: conscience.ca/news/dmos-pr...
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DMOS program funds three projects working towards treatments for rare diseases - Conscience
We are proud to announce the first three recipients of funding via our Developing Medicines through Open Science program. These grantees are working towards treatments and cures for three rare disease...
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Conscience @conscience-network.bsky.social · 26/02/2025
Did you know that 95% of rare diseases don’t have a single approved treatment? That’s a staggering statistic, but one we believe can change. For #RareDiseaseDay, we’re offering 50% off tickets to our Symposium on Open Drug Discovery on April 7-8 in Montreal! conscience.ca/symposium2025
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Conscience @conscience-network.bsky.social · 25/02/2025
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Conscience @conscience-network.bsky.social · 25/02/2025
✨ Symposium session reveal ✨ CACHE Challenge Participant Showcase - This session brings together standout participants from around the world to share their insights, methods, and key takeaways from tackling CACHE Challenges. Register here: conscience.ca/symposium2025 @colegroupncl.bsky.social
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Conscience @conscience-network.bsky.social · 17/02/2025
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Conscience @conscience-network.bsky.social · 17/02/2025
✨Another symposium session reveal✨ Featuring Max Morgan and @griffen-ed.bsky.social, this session features speakers inventing and actively implementing new strategies that centre open science and collaboration to drive drug discovery! Register here: conscience.ca/symposium2025
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Conscience @conscience-network.bsky.social · 11/02/2025
✨Symposium session reveal✨ Featuring @albertantolin.bsky.social and @karmencj.bsky.social, this session highlights initiatives enabling communities to come together to solve some of the biggest challenges in drug discovery. Register here: conscience.ca/symposium2025
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Conscience @conscience-network.bsky.social · 11/02/2025
We believe that science thrives when everyone has a seat at the table. Today we celebrate the incredible women in our organization who make our work possible - from our Board of Directors, where 6 of 8 members are women, to our staff, who bring the expertise needed to make our vision a reality!
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Conscience @conscience-network.bsky.social · 27/01/2025
And if you want to hear about the challenge in person, join us in Montreal April 7-8. Registration link is below and there is still time to snag an early bird ticket. Link: event.fourwaves.com/consciencesy...
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Conscience @conscience-network.bsky.social · 27/01/2025
While we gear up to welcome both Polaris and ASAP to our Symposium in April, they have been cooking up something special. They're releasing an intermediate leaderboard for the antiviral challenge on the 31st. So you (looking at #CACHEChallenge participants!) have a few days to get in a prediction!
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Conscience @conscience-network.bsky.social · 23/01/2025
Our Chief Policy and Partnerships Officer, @richardgold.bsky.social argues that Canada should use IP as a weapon against Trump's tariffs - a bold step that would help produce lower-cost medicines and ramp up AI-assisted drug discovery. Read it here: www.theglobeandmail.com/business/com...
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Opinion: Canada must hit the U.S. where it hurts most: its lucrative patents
If the United States declares economic warfare on Canada, we need policies that not only cost U.S. firms but create opportunities for Canadian ones
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Conscience @conscience-network.bsky.social · 15/01/2025
Are you working to advance #OpenScience, #AI -assisted drug design, or innovative approaches to #DrugDiscovery? Submit an abstract by March 7 for the opportunity to present a 3-minute flash talk at the Conscience Symposium on Open Drug Discovery on April 7-8, 2025, in Montreal!
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Conscience @conscience-network.bsky.social · 15/01/2025
📣 We're hiring 📣 (again!) We're seeking a Director of #BusinessDevelopment to drive partnerships and sustainable growth for our programs in #OpenScience, #AI, and #DrugDiscovery. Learn more here: conscience.ca/about-us/wor...
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Work with Us - Conscience
Current Job Openings Chief Executive Officer Network Manager Director of Business Development Working at Conscience The Conscience team works virtually in a remote environment built around Slack, Zoom...
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