Setting our sights on infectious diseases

Manu De Rycker; David Horn; Bree Aldridge; Richard K. Amewu; Clifton E. Barry; Frederick S. Buckner; Sarah Cook; Michael A. J. Ferguson; Nathalie Gobeau; Jennifer Herrmann; Paul Herrling; William Hope; Jennifer Keiser; Maria Jose Lafuente-Monasterio; Paul D. Leeson; Didier Leroy; Ujjini H. Manjunatha; James McCarthy; Timothy J. Miles; Valerie Mizrahi; Olena Moshynets; Jacquin Niles; John P. Overington; John Pottage; Srinivasa P. S. Rao; Kevin D. Read; Isabela Ribeiro; Lynn L. Silver; Jen Southern; Thomas Spangenberg; Shyam Sundar; Caitlin Taylor; Wesley C. Van Voorhis; Nicholas J. White; Susan Wyllie; Paul G. Wyatt; Ian H. Gilbert

doi:10.1021/acsinfecdis.9b00371

Setting our sights on infectious diseases

Manu De Rycker, David Horn, Bree Aldridge, Richard K. Amewu, Clifton E. Barry, Frederick S. Buckner, Sarah Cook, Michael A. J. Ferguson, Nathalie Gobeau, Jennifer Herrmann, Paul Herrling, William Hope, Jennifer Keiser, Maria Jose Lafuente-Monasterio, Paul D. Leeson, Didier Leroy, Ujjini H. Manjunatha, James McCarthy, Timothy J. Miles, Valerie MizrahiOlena Moshynets, Jacquin Niles, John P. Overington, John Pottage, Srinivasa P. S. Rao, Kevin D. Read, Isabela Ribeiro, Lynn L. Silver, Jen Southern, Thomas Spangenberg, Shyam Sundar, Caitlin Taylor, Wesley C. Van Voorhis, Nicholas J. White, Susan Wyllie, Paul G. Wyatt, Ian H. Gilbert (Lead / Corresponding author)

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Abstract

In May 2019, the Wellcome Centre for Anti-Infectives Research (WCAIR) at the University of Dundee, UK, held an international conference with the aim of discussing some key questions around discovering new medicines for infectious diseases and a particular focus on diseases affecting Low and Middle Income Countries. There is an urgent need for new drugs to treat most infectious diseases. We were keen to see if there were lessons that we could learn across different disease areas and between the preclinical and clinical phases with the aim of exploring how we can improve and speed up the drug discovery, translational, and clinical development processes. We started with an introductory session on the current situation and then worked backward from clinical development to combination therapy, pharmacokinetic/pharmacodynamic (PK/PD) studies, drug discovery pathways, and new starting points and targets. This Viewpoint aims to capture some of the learnings.

Original language	English
Pages (from-to)	3-13
Number of pages	11
Journal	ACS Infectious Diseases
Volume	6
Early online date	6 Dec 2019
DOIs	https://doi.org/10.1021/acsinfecdis.9b00371
Publication status	Published - 10 Jan 2020

Keywords

drug discovery
neglected tropical diseases
low and middle income countries

ASJC Scopus subject areas

Infectious Diseases

UN SDGs

This output contributes to the following UN Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs)

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De Rycker, M., Horn, D., Aldridge, B., Amewu, R. K., Barry, C. E., Buckner, F. S., Cook, S., Ferguson, M. A. J., Gobeau, N., Herrmann, J., Herrling, P., Hope, W., Keiser, J., Lafuente-Monasterio, M. J., Leeson, P. D., Leroy, D., Manjunatha, U. H., McCarthy, J., Miles, T. J., ... Gilbert, I. H. (2020). Setting our sights on infectious diseases. ACS Infectious Diseases, 6, 3-13. https://doi.org/10.1021/acsinfecdis.9b00371

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Setting our sights on infectious diseases

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Chemical Biology: Leveraging Phenotypic Hits Against Kinetoplastids (Strategic Grant)

Protein Glycosylation in Trypanosomes: Defining and Exploiting a Biological System (Senior Investigator Award)

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