News and Press Releases

6 November 2008
Cresset will co-host the UKQSAR Meeting at our offices in BioPark Hertfordshire, Welwyn Garden City, UK.
26-28 October 2008
Dr Andy Vinter, Cresset, gives a talk entitled "Using molecular fields for rational drug design against GPCRs: Application to CCK2 antagonists", at the 2nd Coast-to-Coast Medicinal and Synthetic Chemistry Symposium in Torquay, UK.
15 October 2008
Cresset will be exhibiting at Bench2Boardroom, Cambridge. Come and visit us on Stand 29.
21-26 September 2008
Cresset will present a poster and exhibit at the 17th Euro-QSAR 2008 in Uppsala, Sweden.
8-10 September 2008
Cresset exhibits at the RSC/SCI Symposium in Gothenburg, Sweden.
31 August - 4 September 2008
Cresset will present a poster and exhibit at the 20th International Symposium on Medicinal Chemistry, Vienna, Austria. Come and visit us at Stand no. 29.
11 June 2008
Cresset exhibits at the SCI ChemoInformatics and SAR Conference, Belgrave Square, London.
1-5 June 2008
Dr Mark Mackey, Cresset, will give a presentation at the 8th International Conference on Chemical Structures (ICCS), Noordwijkerhout, Holland. "Can 3D ligand based virtual screening compete with Docking? Application of Molecular fields to virtual screening with the DUD dataset". Cresset will also be exhibiting at the conference, please come and visit our stand to hear about the latest advances in our field technology.
22 May 2008
Dr Sally Rose, Cresset, will present a talk at the European Partnering and Investment Conference (EPIC) in London, UK.
21 May 2008
Cresset release version 2.1.1 of FieldTemplater. Version 2.1.1 is a patch release, adding the ability to install on Windows as a non-Administrator user and fixing some minor bugs.
7-9 May 2008
Cresset will present a poster at ERBI's 10th Anniversary Celebration BioPartnering Exchange Conference at The Wellcome Trust Genome Campus, Hinxton, Cambridge, UK
10 Apr 2008
Cresset release version 2.1 of FieldTemplater. Version 2.1 is a major upgrade, adding significant new science features such as constraints which make finding the bioactive conformation of your actives even easier.
29 March - 3 April 2008
Dr Tim Cheeseright, Cresset, will give a talk at the Keystone Symposia, Colorado Springs, USA.
19 March 2008
Press Release: BioFocus DPI takes global license for Cresset's molecular field software. "BioFocus DPI and Cresset BioMolecular Discovery announced today that BioFocus DPI has up-graded its software license with Cresset to provide global access to the entire range of Cresset's molecular field software for use in drug discovery". Download and read this press release).
19 March 2008
Cresset release version 2.0.1 of FieldAlign. Version 2.0.1 is a bugfix release, fixing issues related to slow file access under Windows Vista and pasting from ISIS/Draw.
12 March 2008
Cresset User Group Meeting 2008 will be held at BioPark Hertfordshire. As well as talks from leading customers Cresset will describe latest advances in their field technology.
4 February 2008
Cresset release version 2.0 of FieldAlign. Version 2.0 introduces many new features, including the ability to constrain alignments to match certain field points.
13 December 2007
Cresset presents a poster at the Genesis Conference, London.
11-13 November 2007
Cresset will present a poster at the German Chemoinformatics-21.CIC Workshop, Goslar.
8 November 2007
Cresset announce the launch of a new version of FieldTemplater. Version 2.0.1 is primarily a bugfix release, but also improves the user interface for loading in multiconformer files.
17 October 2007
Cresset will be exhibiting at the Bench2Boardroom Meeting, Chilford Hall, Cambridge, Booth 48.
10 Sept 2007
Cresset move to our new offices at BioPark, Welwyn Garden City.
9 Sept - 11 Sept 2007
Cresset will be exhibiting and presenting a poster at the ACS Prospectives Conference, San Francisco USA.
4 Sept 2007
BioFocus have announced the release of two new compound libraries targetting transient receptor potential (TRP) ion channels (download press release). These FieldFocus libraries were developed in collaboration with Cresset and use Cresset's field technology to drive the design.
29 Apr - 2 May 2007
Cresset will be exhibiting and presenting a poster at the ACS Prospectives Conference, Boston USA.
24 April 2007
Cresset will present a poster at the UK QSAR 2007 Meeting in Alderly Edge.
11-13 March 2007
Cresset will be exhibiting at the TACBAC 2007 Conference at the Wellcome Trust Conference Centre, Hinxton. Come and see us at Booth 3.
13 March 2007
Dr Andy Vinter will be speaking at the MGMS Silver Jubilee Meeting in London.
20-21 Feb 2007
Cresset will exhibit and present a poster at Screening/MedChem Europe 2007 in Barcelona. See us at Stand 42!
2006
Cresset has collaborated with BioFocus to produce chemical libraries, highly focussed on Cresset's unique technology.
11-12 Dec 2006
Cresset will attend the Genesis Conference at the Queen Elizabeth II Conference Centre, London, and present a poster under the Technology Showcase.
24 Oct 2006
Cresset hold their first FieldScreen User Group Meeting at Spirella, Letchworth.
18 Oct 2006
Cresset will be exhibiting at ERBI's Bench2Boardroom Conference, Hinxton Hall, Cambridge. See us at stand 16.
10-17 Sept 2006
Dr Tim Cheeseright will present at poster at EuroQSAR 2006 in Italy.
8-13 Oct 2006
Dr Mark Mackey will present at the 2006 Computational Chemistry Gordon Research Conference in Les Diablerets, Switzerland. www.grc.org
14-17 May 2006
Dr Tim Cheeseright will be presenting a paper at the SciPharm 2006 conference in Edinburgh. Cresset will be exhibiting: come and see us at booth 212!
4-9 Apr 2006
Dr Sally Rose will be presenting a poster at the Structure Based Drug Discovery Keystone Symposium in Whistler, British Columbia.
26-30 Mar 2006
Dr Mark Mackey will be presenting a paper at the 231st ACS National Meeting in Atlanta, Georgia. Cresset will be exhibiting: come and see us at booth 213!
21 Mar 2006
Dr Andy Vinter will be presenting a paper at Virtual Discovery 2006 in London.
28 Feb 2006
Cresset will be exhibiting at BioteXpo 2006 in Newmarket, UK at booth 13.
10 Jan 2006
Cresset and Bayer CropScience announce a collaboration on molecular field technology (download press release)
15 Dec 2005
BioFocus collaborates with Cresset to develop new range of compound libraries (download press release)
2 Dec 2005
Cresset are sponsoring the 2005 MGMS Young Modeller's Forum in London.
30 Nov - 1 Dec 2005
Dr Sally Rose will be presenting at the 2005 Genesis conference in London.
30 Nov 2005
Cresset announce the launch of FieldTemplater, a tool for finding the bound conformations of active compounds (download press release)
15th-16th November 2005
Dr Sally Rose will be presenting at the IBLA conference in London: 'From Efficiency to Effectiveness - A unique insight into lead discovery'
31st July - Aug 5th 2005
Dr Mark Mackey will be presenting at the 2005 Computer-Aided Drug Design Gordon Research Conference in Tilton, New Hampshire
5th-9th June 2005
Cresset's CSO, Dr Any Vinter, will be presenting at the 7th International Conference on Chemical Structures in Noordwijkerhout, the Netherlands.
24th May 2005
Dr Sally Rose will be presenting at the World Pharmaceutical Congress in Philadelphia.
13 Apr 2005
Cresset exhibiting at MedChem Europe, Berlin, Germany
2 Mar 2005
Cresset forms a lead-finding collaboration with Pharmagene (download press release)
9 Dec 2004
Launch of FieldScreen - novel in-silico lead-finding software for medicinal chemistry (download press release)
16 Aug 2004
Cresset exhibiting at XIIIth International Symposium on Medicinal Chemistry, Copenhagen, Denmark
7 Aug 2004
Cresset completes a successful validation study in collaboration with the Wellcome Trust and The University of Edinburgh to find nano-Molar lead compounds for a proprietary drug target
22 Apr 2004
Beatrice Leigh is appointed Chief Executive Officer
1 Apr 2004
Cresset expands into new offices
1 Mar 2004
Dr Sally Rose is appointed as Director of Business Development
18 May 2003
Cresset exhibiting at Intelligent Drug Discovery and Development 3, Philadelphia, USA
8 Nov 2002
Cresset announce the first validation of their unique FieldPrint® technology in collaboration with the James Black Foundation
9 Sep 2002
Cresset exhibiting at EuroQSAR, Bournemouth UK
1 Nov 2001
Cresset founded with funding from Catalyst Biomedica, a division of the Wellcome Trust