Chemistry
Novalead: A better candidate
Our expert chemists thoughtfully apply our resources — including a proprietary DNA-encoded library — to refine and purify the compound, perfecting the profile no matter how time-sensitive or complex the challenge.

Organometallic and heterocyclic chemistry
Synthesis of focused libraries, standards and reference materials. Unique expertise in building sophisticated scaffolds with complex and diverse chemistry.
Process development
Our chemists design safe, shorter, replicable and scalable synthetic routes and processes, implementing them rapidly to reduce bottlenecks, capital investment and the cost of goods.
High-throughput synthesis
We use rapid synthesis to shorten the design-make-test cycle. We are equipped and trained to provide focused libraries in one week to validate a hypothesis quickly.
PROTACs
We offer the latest PROTAC (PROteolysis TArgeting Chimeras) technology to explore Targeted Protein Degradation (TPD), using event-based target activity to redefine the principles of classical drug discovery.
Photo- and electro-chemistry
The Novalix chemistry platform provides both photochemistry, an increasingly viable synthetic strategy to produce active pharmaceutical ingredients (APIs), and electrochemistry, the scale and environmental benefit of which combines well with flow chemistry.
Flow chemistry
A powerful, safe innovative tool for process and discovery chemistry, now integrated with AI, that reduces the environmental footprint and enables hard-to-scale batch processes.
DNA-encoded libraries synthesis
Our DNA-enabled libraries (DEL) are fully integrated and automated; a cost-effective approach to hit and lead generation that accesses a broad set of diverse chemotypes, and tracks all data from library synthesis through affinity selection.

Sophie Coupa
Senior Project Manager
More than 25 years of experience in organic synthesis in big pharma. Leading projects in photocatalysis developing our equipment and know-how.

Sébastien Richard
Senior scientist
18 years of experience in biotech and pharma. Experience in PROTACs.

Sylvain Guizzetti
Director Process and Flow
20 years of experience at Novalix as synthetic organic chemist. Developed and leads the flow and process chemistry platform.

Yannick Ligny
Senior Project Manager
More than 25 years of experience in organic synthesis in big pharma. Experienced in Parallel Medicinal Chemistry. Now head of the Accelerated Chemistry Platform.
