Links to other Open Source Biology and/or Tropical Neglected Diseases initiatives.
Open Source Biology has been around as an conceptual idea for many years now. Follow this link for a summarizing article by Steven Maurer.
Next we have collected links to OSB and NTD related projects, which complement our initiative.
| Academic-based tropical disease initiative | |
| TB database | An integrated platform for tuberculosis research. |
| TDI | The Tropical Disease Initiative. This site. |
| TDI Dundee | TDI Dundee aims to deliver at least 1 drug candidate suitable for entry into formal pre-clinical development against one neglected disease by March 2011. |
| TDR database | Identification and ranking of targets against neglected tropical diseases. |
| Collaboration Web Portals | |
| CAMBIA-BIOFORGE | An online community for biological innovation |
| Collaborative Drug Discovery | Web-based software to help scientists advance new drug candidates. |
| Open Wet Were | Aims to promote the sharing of information, know-how, and wisdom among researchers and groups who are working in biology and biological engineering. |
| Open Notebook Science | Open Notebook Science is the practice of making the entire primary record of a research project publicly available online as it is recorded. |
| The Synaptic Leap | One of the first open sites for collaboration between researches in Biomedicine. |
| Public-Private-Partnerships | |
| Drugs for Neglected Diseases Initiative | The DNDi fosters collaboration both amongst developing countries and between developing and developed countries. Its design is a blend of centralized management to give it a clear project-specific focus, and decentralized operations that mimic modern drug companies.. |
| Medicines for Malaria Venture | Medicines for Malaria Venture, is dedicated to reducing the burden of malaria in disease-endemic countries by discovering, developing and facilitating delivery of new, effective and affordable antimalarial drugs. |
| OSDD India | OSDD is a CSIR-led Team India consortium with a global partnership. It’s vision is 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, leishmaniasis, etc. |
| OWH | The Institute for OneWorld Health is working to fulfill the promise of medicine for those most in need. |
| TB Alliance | The TB Alliance is a not-for-profit, product development partnership accelerating the discovery and development of new TB drugs. |
| The Gates Foundation | One of the largest private foundation addressing tropical neglected diseases. |
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Farmabrasilis added these pithy words on Apr 23 10 at 5:19 pmA new model for pharmaceuticals in South America:
Farmabrasilis is a non-governmental, non-profit research network bringing together Brazilian, Chilean, American and European scientists and people devoted to the research and development of new medicines and technologies for the benefit of economically disadvantaged populations and individuals affected by neglected diseases. Our goals are:
1) Build a new model for pharmaceuticals
2) Create and disseminate new strategies for research and development of medicines and related technologies in favour of economically disadvantaged populations
3) Expand and ensure the development of technologies to support translational research
4)Transfer the production technology of our products free of charge for use by neglected diseases and populations.News from Farmabrasilis:
http://blog.tropika.net/tropika/2010/04/19/news-from-farmabrasilis/
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