Open Source Drug Discovery (OSDD)
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Join The Movement : Open Source Drug Discovery
OSDD or Open Source Drug Discovery is a community of students, scientists, researchers, academicians, institutions, corporations and anyone who is committed to discovery of drugs in an open source mode. [...] Read More »
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Open Source Drug Discovery Test A Success
In what is being called the first-ever test of open-source drug-discovery, researchers from around the world have successfully identified compounds to pursue in treating and preventing parasite-borne illnesses such as malaria as well as cancer...One-third of the labs reported their results in a paper published today in PLOS Pathogens, "Open source drug discovery with the Malaria Box compound collection for neglected diseases and beyond." The results have ignited more a dozen drug-development projects for a variety of diseases. "The trial was successful not only in identifying compounds to pursue for anti-malarials, but it also identified compounds to treat other parasites and cancer," said lead author Wesley Van Voorhis.
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Open Source Effort Develops Affordable Drugs
In order to accelerate the development of new drugs to combat and cure major infectious diseases, Professor A.K. Ganguly of the Department of Chemistry, Chemical Biology & Biomedical Engineering at Stevens Institute of Technology is contributing his expertise and passion to the Council of Scientific and Industrial Research (CSIR) Open Source Drug Discovery initiative. Read More »
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Open Source Pharma And Prizes
I’m involved in a meeting happening next month in Italy that is asking “Can we develop a new open source pharmaceutical industry?” We’ll be talking amongst other things about incentives (such as prizes) and new ideas for the structure of pharma (legal and economic) and trying to come up with some pilot projects.
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OSDD Starts Youtube Competition For TB
India's Open Source Drug Discovery initiative and Vigyan Prasar have called for videos based on the theme, 'The need for TB drugs'. Participants need to be at least 18 years of age and can either upload the video on Youtube or send the video as an email attachment to the authorities, before Nov 26 Read More »
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Pharmacists Told To Work In PHCs Too
Urging qualified pharmacists to take greater roles in the healthcare sector, former president A P J Abdul Kalam on Sunday said they must be given a chance to serve at public health centres (PHCs) and community health centres (CHCs). Read More »
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Phase II Trials Of TB Drug Through Open Source Drug Discovery Programme To Begin Soon
The search for a new tuberculosis drug after many decades and first time through a unique model of open drug discovery programme may finally bear fruits in near future, with India all set for the launch of the phase II clinical trial of the drug candidate. Read More »
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Scientific Data Should Be Shared: An Open Letter To The ARC
Science (real science, not the summaries in popular books and the media) is needlessly closed to the outside world. Worse, it is closed within itself, with every lab its own silo, and little sharing of data or materials. Read More »
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Stevens Professor Joins Open Source Effort To Develop Low-Cost Drugs
Professor A.K. Ganguly of the Department of Chemistry, Chemical Biology & Biomedical Engineering at Stevens Institute of Technology is contributing his expertise and passion to the Council of Scientific and Industrial Research (CSIR) Open Source Drug Discovery initiative... Read More »
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Tata Trusts support the creation of the Open Source Pharma Foundation
Seeking to create a world of affordable medicine for all, Tata Trusts has announced their support for the creation of the Open Source Pharma Foundation (OSPF) at OSP2, the 2nd Annual Global Open Source Pharma conference. Held at Castle Rauischholzhausen in Germany on Sept 01 to 03, 2015, the OSP conference brought together researchers, NGOs, industry professionals, philanthropists and entrepreneurs...Open Source Pharma (OSP) is a concept inspired by the Linux model of operation. Adapted to tackling important public health challenges, it hopes to catalyze radical change in the way we do medical R&D and deliver better and more affordable innovation quicker and cheaper to patients.
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The Holy Grail Of New Drug Development
The announcement by Zydus Cadila in early June that their new drug to treat diabetics who also suffer from high cholesterol has passed all stages of clinical trials is an important landmark for the Indian pharmaceutical industry. [...] Read More »
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Top 10 Malaria Innovations
Last week we asked readers to send in the best innovations they had seen that help eliminate malaria. Read More »
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Unlock Local Research Potential With Open Access
The developing world is not well served by traditional research publishing, but can break new ground with open access, argues Leslie Chan. Read More »
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“Open Source” Drug Discovery - €196M Program Launched
Major pharma firms have joined together in a consortium with academics and SMEs that will invest €196 million in a new project to give a boost to ‘open-source’ drug discovery in the EU. Read More »
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