OSDD

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All About Chemistry

SV Eswaran | Hindustan Times | January 10, 2012

This has also led to the emergence of computer-aided drug design as an attractive career option. The laudable initiative of the Council of Scientific and Industrial Research in launching the Open Source Drug Discovery (OSDD) encourages students and faculty anywhere in the country and abroad to register, log in to the website and participate in the discovery of new drugs. In this programme, the innovator helps in generating new drugs to be made available to the common man at a reasonable price.

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How Gurgaon Based Startup Knimbus Helps Scientists Share Findings and Connect with Peers

Peerzada Abrar | The Economic Times | August 2, 2012

Melding together the features of popular social networking sites, a fledgling startup in Gurgaon has built a search and collaboration platform that aims to knock down the ivory towers confining global scientific research. Read More »

Open Source Drug Discovery Gathers Steam

Staff Writer | BioSpectrum | July 6, 2012

The unique CSIR initiative, now has over 6,000 registered participants working on an open source platform for the discovery of drugs of diseases such as TB, malaria and more. Read More »

Open Source Drug Discovery: And now the target is malaria and its resistance to drugs

Syed Akbar | Syed Akbar Journalist | October 28, 2011

Hyderabad: College and university students can now contribute their ideas to find a viable medical solution to the ever-increasing problem of malaria and its resistance to drugs. Even ordinary citizens can participate in the new initiative launched by the Council of Scientific and Industrial Research to combat malaria through search for new drugs. Read More »

TB or Not TB: India Crowdsources Research

Jason Overdorf | GlobalPost | July 11, 2012

Facing nearly 2 million new tuberculosis cases every year — more and more of them drug-resistant — India has a bigger stake in finding a better treatment for TB than any other country. Read More »