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Overcoming the Challenges of Drug Discovery for Neglected Tropical Diseases: The AWOL Experience

Johnston, Kelly, Ford, Louise and Taylor, Mark ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-3396-9275 (2013) 'Overcoming the Challenges of Drug Discovery for Neglected Tropical Diseases: The AWOL Experience'. Journal of Biomolecular Screening, Vol 19, Issue 3, pp. 335-343.

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Abstract

Neglected tropical diseases (NTDs) are a group of 17 diseases that typically affect poor people in tropical countries. Each has been neglected for decades in terms of funding, research, and policy, but the recent grouping of them into one unit, which can be targeted using integrated control measures, together with increased advocacy has helped to place them on the global health agenda. The World Health Organization has set ambitious goals to control or eliminate 10 NTDs by 2020 and launched a roadmap in January 2012 to guide this global plan. The result of the launch meeting, which brought together representatives from the pharmaceutical industry, donors, and politicians, was the London Declaration: a series of commitments to provide more drugs, research, and funds to achieve the 2020 goals. Drug discovery and development for these diseases are extremely challenging, and this article highlights these challenges in the context of the London Declaration, before focusing on an example of a drug discovery and development program for the NTDs onchocerciasis and lymphatic filariasis (the anti-Wolbachia consortium, A·WOL).

Item Type: Article
Subjects: QV Pharmacology > Anti-Inflammatory Agents. Anti-Infective Agents. Antineoplastic Agents > QV 250 Anti-infective agents (General)
QX Parasitology > QX 20 Research (General)
WC Communicable Diseases > Tropical and Parasitic Diseases > WC 680 Tropical diseases (General)
WC Communicable Diseases > Tropical and Parasitic Diseases > WC 695 Parasitic diseases (General)
WC Communicable Diseases > Tropical and Parasitic Diseases > WC 880 Filariasis and related conditions (General)
WC Communicable Diseases > Tropical and Parasitic Diseases > WC 885 Onchocerciasis
Faculty: Department: Biological Sciences > Department of Tropical Disease Biology
Digital Object Identifer (DOI): https://doi.org/10.1177/1087057113511270
Depositing User: Lynn Roberts-Maloney
Date Deposited: 18 Nov 2014 10:21
Last Modified: 04 Dec 2020 15:35
URI: https://archive.lstmed.ac.uk/id/eprint/4590

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