TI Pharma was founded on the 11th of July 2006. It is located in the Leiden Bio Science Park. FIGON, the Netherlands Federation for Innovative Drug Research, has led the initiative to obtain commitments of both industrial and academic partners to participate in TI Pharma. TI Pharma is a structural collaboration of industrial and academic research teams. TI Pharma conducts groundbreaking, cross-disciplinary research and trains their personnel on improving the efficiency of the entire drug discovery and development process.