Battling Disease with Open: Open Source Malaria Consortium - SPARC

lterrat's bookmarks 2017-01-31

Summary:

"Each year, about 200 million people get sick with malaria, and about 600,000 people die from the infection—most of them young children[1]. The quest for new malaria therapeutics is a pressing ongoing public health issue. It’s particularly challenging, as the aggressive malaria parasite becomes drug resistant extremely quickly.

Solution

The Open Source Malaria Consortium invites scientists from around the around to freely share their research on anti-malaria drugs through a transparent, online platform. The hope is to accelerate discovery of new drug candidates to be entered into pre-clinical development. All data and ideas are shared openly. There are no patents.

In 2011, Matt Todd, an Associate Professor of Chemistry at The University of Sydney in Australia, helped create the collaborative project which uses open access to laboratory notebooks and social media notifications to allow participants to keep up on each other’s findings in real time as they work on new molecules. This nimble network of contributors includes senior scientists with pharmaceutical companies, retired researchers, chemists, and students from high school through post-doc."

Link:

https://sparcopen.org/impact-story/open-source-malaria-consortium/

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Tags:

oa.south oa.data oa.pharma

Date tagged:

01/31/2017, 22:17

Date published:

01/31/2017, 09:40