--- title: About cryoDuck B.V. - Leading the Cryo-EM Revolution in Drug Discovery description: Discover our mission to connect people and expertise, and our vision for industrializing cryo-EM to make safer, better medicines. image: https://cryoduck.com/hubfs/Mazdak.jpg --- [Skip to content](https://cryoduck.com/about#main-content) [![cryoDuck Logo](https://cryoduck.com/hs-fs/hubfs/Home/horizontal%20light%20bg.png?width=300&height=66&name=horizontal%20light%20bg.png)](https://cryoduck.com?hsLang=en) - [Home](https://cryoduck.com/) - [About](https://cryoduck.com/about) - [Blog](https://cryoduck.com/blog) - [Newsletter](https://cryoduck.com/newsletter) Open main navigation Close main navigation - [Home](https://cryoduck.com/) - [About](https://cryoduck.com/about) - [Blog](https://cryoduck.com/blog) - [Newsletter](https://cryoduck.com/newsletter) - [Contact us](https://cryoduck.com/contact) [Contact us](https://cryoduck.com/contact?hsLang=en) # About us History and mindset of cryoDuck. ![Mazdak](https://cryoduck.com/hubfs/Mazdak.jpg "Mazdak") ### Mazdak Radjainia (Managing Director) ## A story of constant change with one steadfast principle Cryo-EM is a game of getting your ducks in a row. I lived it as an undergraduate student (Goethe University/Max Planck Institute for Biophysics, Frankfurt), a doctoral student and post-doctoral researcher (University of Auckland), as a Cryo-TEM manager (Monash University), and as a manager of pharma cryo-EM collaborations (Thermo Fisher, Eindhoven). This unwavering principle has been the one constant from the days of blobology, when cryo-EM could only produce low-resolution structures, to the resolution revolution that dramatically improved its utility for drug discovery; and it is here to stay for the future of ever-shaping cryo-EM. ## Technology & people Throughout my career, collaboration has always been at the heart of my approach to cryo-EM. The interdisciplinary nature of this field demands the combined expertise of individuals with diverse backgrounds, such as protein biochemistry, cryo-EM data collection, and computational methods. At the core of cryoDuck's mission is the commitment to connecting people, be it connecting them to or connecting them within the cryo-EM workflow. ![Nitrogen](https://cryoduck.com/hs-fs/hubfs/Nitrogen.png?width=1500&height=1000&name=Nitrogen.png "Nitrogen") ![Receptor](https://cryoduck.com/hs-fs/hubfs/Receptor.png?width=800&height=599&name=Receptor.png "Receptor") ## Industrializing cryo-EM for better, safer medicines A powerful method adapts to the research question, and never the other way around. I always believed that cryo-EM needs to bend to the needs of drug discovery. This involved showing that cryo-EM can be used to solve small structures like hemoglobin and enable targets as important as family B GPCRs like GLP-1R. More importantly, my passion is to make such successes accessible to industrial users, empowering drug discoverers to harness cryo-EM's full potential; yet, there's more work ahead to fully industrialize cryo-EM. ## Recommended reads 1. Review article: [The rapidly evolving role of cryo-EM in drug design.](https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/abs/pii/S1740674920300366) 2. Editorial article: [Accelerating targets and modalities – how cryo-EM is transforming drug discovery and development.](https://www.selectscience.net/editorial-articles/accelerating-targets-and-modalities-how-cryo-em-is-transforming-drug-discovery-and-development/?artID=58092) 3. 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