The P4EU (Protein Production and Purification Partnership in Europe) is a professional network, whose members engage in various aspects of protein expression, purification and characterization in academic settings such as universities or research institutes, typically core technology platforms.

The P4EU was conceived in 2010 with the initial kick-off meeting in Halle, Germany in February 2011. Since then, at least one 2-day meeting has been hosted each year by member’s institutes, which has led the P4EU across Europe and allowed visits to individual platforms, thereby allowing exchange of ideas on set-ups. Currently, we have more than 150 members of the P4EU with a meeting attendance of 30-40 P4EU protein experts plus an equivalent number of local attendees. In addition to meetings, there is a very active on-line discussion forum ensuring that trusted, expert advice is never further away than the fingertips.
The mission of P4EU is to create a forum for informal exchange of experiences and solutions to common problems to avoid “re-invention of the wheel” in parallel. This could relate to, amongst other subjects

Taken together, the P4EU facilitates contacts between like-minded scientists in an open atmosphere with the meetings being highly stimulating events with high-quality talks as rich sources of inspiration.