The University of Milan is the only Italian member among the 21 prestigious Universities of the League of European Research Universities (LERU). With a teaching staff of about 2.200 tenured professors and with almost 60.000 students, it is the largest university in Lombardy, one of the most dynamic and internationally-oriented EU regions, and offers several study programmes covering three macro-disciplinary areas: i) Humanities, Social Sciences and Law, ii) Medicine and Healthcare, iii) Natural Sciences. Research activities are conducted in 31 Departments and 29 Inter-departmental Research Centres, with more than 24.000 scientific publications in the last three years and many international patent applications. The University’s researchers occupy leading positions in numerous research programmes conducted both at a national and international level.

Role and Commitment of key persons (including supervisors)

Role and Commitment of key persons (including supervisors) Prof. Maurizio Benaglia, network coordinator, supervisor, group leader at UMIL, Professor of Organic Chemistry, 4 months per year; Prof. Alessandra Puglisi, associate professor, expert in chiral catalysts immobilization and flow chemistry, 3 months per year; Dr. Sergio Rossi, assistant professor, expert in stereoselective catalysis, 3D printed devices, micro/mesoreactors, 4 months per year. Prof. Laura Raimondi, associate professor, expert in computational chemistry and mechanism elucidation, 2 months per year.

Key Research Facilities, Infrastructure and Equipment

The UMIL research group operates within the Department of Chemistry of the University of Milan (www.chimica.unimi.it). Consistent financial support comes from national and international public entities and from industries and private institutions. State-of-the-art synthetic (Parr-Reactors, MW-Oven) and computational chemistry resources, analytical and purification instrumentation (NMR, IR, UV and CD spectrometers, HPLC, GC and automatic purifier, Maldi Tof and ESI-MS, etc). The ESRs will have indirect access to HRMS and X-ray services.

Status of Research premises

All the mentioned facilities are owned by the University of Milano, some of them being directly owned by Network coordinator (prof. Benaglia)

Taros Chemicals GmbH ∧ Co. KG is a leading European chemistry-based SME located in Dortmund, Germany. Operational since its inception in 1999, it has steadily grown from a 3 people enterprise to its current size of 50 employees. Taros is a scientific contract research organization specialized in synthetic, medicinal and computational chemistry solutions and services to a large range of customers (eg. from material science industries to pharmaceutical companies, from academic units to the agrochemical sector, from philanthropist organizations to fine chemicals suppliers).

Role and Commitment of key persons (including supervisors)

Miguel A Sanz, Head of Synthetic Chemistry, 4 months per year; Laurenz Kramps, Senior Scientific, 1 month per year; Sumaira Umbreen, Senior Scientific 1 month per year

Key Research Facilities, Infrastructure and Equipment

Taros research facilities in Dortmund include >1500 sqm laboratories, >50 fumehoods, state-of-the-art industrial synthetic (Parr-Reactors, 10L-Reactor, MW-Reactor, etc) and computational chemistry resources, analytical and purification instrumentation (eg. NMR, GC-MS, LC-MS, uHPLC, pHPLC, MPLC), data analysis, visualization and management.

Status of Research premises

All the mentioned facilities are owned by Taros Chemicals.

Previous Involvement in Research and Training Programmes

In recent years Taros has been actively involved in European (IMI, ITNs, ETNs, FP7-KBBE) and German (BMBF, DFG, DDE) research and training programmes.

Current Involvement in Research and Training Programmes

Chemistry leader for IMI European Lead Factory, full participant in H2020 Cardiotarget and INTEGRATE, FP7-KBBE Optibiocat, ITN PPS, ITN LiveAC, BMBF Go-Bio, BMBF Biocase, BMBF uIMA-HPC