About Peakdale Molecular

Peakdale Molecular is a leading UK-based CRO delivering a vast array of high quality services for early phase discovery with passion and skill.

Peakdale Molecular was founded by Dr Ray Fisher in Glossop, Derbyshire, in 1992 and Ray continues to manage this thriving business as CEO. Our customers are drawn from pharma, biotech and other high technology companies worldwide.

Using its heritage in the supply of rational building blocks for medicinal chemistry, biased screening libraries and custom synthesis as a springboard, Peakdale now operates a comprehensive suite of services for hit-to-lead and lead optimisation studies. Above all, the most vital resource we offer is the collective skill of Peakdale workforce. With over 85% PhD-level scientists, they relish the challenge of problem-solving within client projects, offering scientific initiative, high levels of communication and utter confidentiality. The Peakdale combination of high productivity, critical thinking and innovation translates into exceptional value-for-money for our clients.

Based at two UK locations, Chapel-en-le-Frith (near Manchester) and Sandwich, we have assembled an enviable array of assets for small molecule discovery. Peakdale has all the essential hardware for modern organic and computational chemistry, a purpose-built ADMET lab. with cell culture facilities, scale-up laboratories with vessels up to 50 L,  automated purification to support array synthesis and a highly engineered suite for pressure chemistry.

Peakdale offers a variety of customised commercial frameworks, from simple fee-for-service right through to long-term FTE projects. We are trusted by major pharma & biotech companies and at one extreme, we operate an embedded team of Peakdale FTE scientists inside the client’s facility on a long-term basis.

PEAKDALE MOLECULAR MISSION STATEMENT

'To be a global leader in the provision of medicinal chemistry and chemistry services to the pharmaceutical, biotech and associated industries by continued flexibility in meeting ever-changing customer requirements.'