I've tried to support research in the Neglected Tropical Disease area in several ways, I organised a session at the 19th Cambridge MedChem Meeting in 2017 and arranged for the session to be recorded and is now available online and has been watched nearly 300 times.

This is a recording of the Neglected and Tropical Diseases Session at the 19th Cambridge MedChem Meeting, 11-13 September 2017. The speakers are Kelly Chibale (Univ of Capetown), Christoph Boss (Actelion), Rob Young (GlaxoSmithKline), Jonathan Large (LifeArc) and Charles Mowbray (DNDI).

So I was delighted to hear that IUPHAR/BPS Guide to pharmacology database have been funded by MMV to add details of antimalarials to their database.

This link http://www.guidetopharmacology.org/GRAC/FamilyDisplayForward?familyId=970 gives details of antimalarial targets, including gene name, synonyms and Uniprot ID.

This link http://www.guidetopharmacology.org/GRAC/FamilyDisplayForward?familyId=999 gives details of antimalarial ligands, including mode of action and properties. For example artemisinin.

I'd urge you have a look and I'm sure they would be happy to hear any suggestions.

The MycetOS (Mycetoma Open Source) project was launched today by the University of Sydney, Erasmus MC, and the Drugs for Neglected Diseases initiative (DNDi) to use an Open Pharma approach to discover compounds that could lead to new treatments for patients suffering from fungal mycetoma (eumycetoma), a devastating disease for which current treatments are ineffective, expensive, and toxic.

More details here….

Join the discussion https://www.reddit.com/r/OpenSourceMycetoma/

or Twitter https://twitter.com/MycetOS

Files here https://github.com/OpenSourceMycetoma

Update

I'm delighted to report that over 200 people have now watched the video online, looks like it was a valuable resource.

One of the nice things about my job is I get the chance to take part in some truly inspiring events. Last month I had the honour of chairing a session on Neglected and Tropical Diseases at the 19th Cambridge MedChem Meeting. In an effort of extend the exposure of the brilliant science undertaken in this important therapeutic area the conference organisers arranged for this to be a live webinar. The session was also recorded and is now available online.

https://youtu.be/XLOCFrjrMEY

This is a recording of the Neglected and Tropical Diseases Session at the 19th Cambridge MedChem Meeting, 11-13 September 2017. The speakers are Kelly Chibale (Univ of Capetown), Christoph Boss (Actelion), Rob Young (GlaxoSmithKline), Jonathan Large (LifeArc) and Charles Mowbray (DNDI).

Please feel free to share. #19thCamMedChem.