Dortmund, Germany, April 2, 2009 – InterMed Discovery (IMD), an emerging world class natural product lead discovery company, announced today the start of a screening project for the Lead Discovery Center GmbH (LDC), a Max-Planck-Innovation company. The LDC was founded in 2008 in close proximity to IMD at the University Campus at Dortmund and forms an essential part of Max-Planck-Innovation's Drug Discovery & Development Center (DDC).