The European Lead Factory unites bright ideas, talent, and experience. The aim is to seed new drug discovery programmes by connecting high quality compounds to innovative drug targets. The European Lead Factory is a collaborative public-private partnership aiming to deliver innovative drug discovery starting points. Hosting the Joint European Compound Library and the European Screening Centre, the EU Lead Factory gives free access to up to 500,000 novel chemical compounds and a unique industry-standard high throughput screening platform. This project has received funding from the Innovative Medicines Initiative 2 Joint Undertaking (JU) under grant agreement No 806948