Innovative Partnerships for Drug Discovery against Neglected Diseases
Figure 1
Examples of public–private partnerships in drug discovery against neglected diseases.
NCDS - The National Center for Drug Screening, Shanghai Institute of Materia Medica, Chinese Academy of Sciences. Contribution: provides infrastructure and expertise to conduct high-throughput screening (HTS) and identification of leads for pharmaceutical development, as well as training of fellows from developing countries. NN - Novo Nordisk A/S. Contribution: supply of compound libraries, expertise with pharmaceutical research, development, and commercialization activities. WHO - World Health Organization Special Programme for Research and Training in Tropical Diseases (WHO/TDR). Contribution: oversees the management and technical review of the collaboration, supplies molecular targets through academic collaborators to support HTS, provides access to screening, medicinal chemistry, and DMPK networks, and sponsors fellows from Africa to be trained at NCDS as part of the collaboration.