Silicos

The story began in the summer of 2005, when three scientists — Wilfried Langenaeker, Gert Thijs, and Hans De Winter — joined forces to found Silicos. At that time, Wilfried and Hans were senior scientists at Johnson & Johnson, and Gert was a postdoctoral researcher in the laboratory of Prof. Bart De Moor at the Catholic University of Leuven.

From its inception, Silicos rapidly established itself as a recognized provider of computational drug design services, combining scientific expertise with innovative computational approaches for pharmaceutical research.

Silicos-it

Around 2010, Silicos-it was founded by Hans De Winter to further develop the software technologies originally initiated within Silicos and to apply them to modern computational drug design challenges. Since then, the company has continued to operate through a flexible fee-for-service model, supporting both industrial and academic research projects.

In parallel, all internally developed software tools have been released as open-source and are now widely used by companies and academic labs around the world.

University of Antwerp

In 2013, Hans was appointed professor of Cheminformatics and Computational Drug Design at the University of Antwerp (UA). This marked the beginning of a close and productive collaboration between Silicos-it and the university.

Since then, several new software tools have been developed, and the partnership has significantly expanded the range of solutions that Silicos-it can offer. In addition to traditional consultancy and fee-for-service projects, we can now engage in government-funded collaborative research initiatives and participate in large-scale computational projects involving exascale supercomputing infrastructures.

Many possibilities

We are open to many forms of collaboration, including fee-for-service research projects. Depending on the scope and objectives of the work, collaborations may involve the University of Antwerp as the academic partner or Silicos-it as the industrial partner. Contact us to discuss your ideas and explore the best solution for your scientific challenges.