c2d2010"Connect to Decode": Open source: the way forward in the search for new treatments for the infectious diseases of poverty

Open Source Drug Discovery

Drug Discovery (OSDD) initiative is a CSIR led team India consortium for affordable healthcare ,OSDD aims to develop drugs for tropical diseases in an Open Source manner.OSDD is a CSIR Team India Consortium with Global Partnership with a vision to provide affordable healthcare to the developing world by providing a global platform where the best minds can collaborate & collectively endeavor to solve the complex problems associated with discovering novel therapies for neglected tropical diseases like Malaria, Tuberculosis, Leshmaniasis, etc.This is an open public group to discuss the issues related to the Open Source

Saturday, March 20, 2010

Open source: the way forward in the search for new treatments for the infectious diseases of poverty

TropIKA.net Examines How Researchers Are Using 'Open-Source Principles' To Bolster TB Drug Development
TropIKA.net examines the efforts of a collaboration known as the Open Source Drug Discovery Foundation (OSDD), which is using "open-source principles" in hopes of accelerating the development of affordable drugs for diseases such as tuberculosis,malaria and leishmaniasis. "OSDD, the brainchild of India's Council of Scientific and Industrial Research (CSIR) in Delhi, is dedicated to developing drugs more cheaply by copying the model of the immensely successful open-source software movement," TropIKA.net writes. "OSDD collaborators are working on around 180 projects aimed at combating TB," according to the news service (Anderson, 3/17).

Open Source Drug Discovery

Saturday, March 20, 2010

Open source: the way forward in the search for new treatments for the infectious diseases of poverty

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