IMCA-CAT Email Format
Research ServicesIllinois, United States2-10 Employees
IMCA-CAT is a small research facility focused on industrial macromolecular crystallography using a synchrotron to support pharmaceutical drug discovery programs. It supports confidential and proprietary experiments and is designed to enable very rapid data collection, aiming to produce high-quality X-ray diffraction data. The facility operates at a beamline within the Advanced Photon Source at Argonne National Laboratory, run in collaboration with Hauptman-Woodward Medical Research Institute, and is based in Naperville, Illinois. Its main customers are pharmaceutical companies that need fast, dependable structural data to inform drug design and development. By providing routine access to specialized structural biology resources for confidential work, IMCA-CAT sits in the research services sector as a provider of industrial crystallography resources for industry use.