FEI has partnered with five pharmaceutical companies: Astex Pharmaceuticals, AstraZeneca, GlaxoSmithKline, Heptares Therapeutics, and UCB; the Medical Research Council Laboratory of Molecular Biology ; and the University of Cambridge's Nanoscience Centre, to form the "Cambridge Pharmaceutical Cryo-EM Consortium," which is the first of its kind worldwide. As part of the three-year agreement, FEI will provide sample preparation and data collection services on a Titan Krios cryo-transmission electron microscope to the consortium companies for early-stage drug discovery research.