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Drug Discovery Africa 2025

Registration for the Drug Discovery Africa  conference is now open. We invite you to join us at the University of Ghana, Accra from 12-14th March 2025. Our aim is showcase African led drug discovery research against endemic infectious diseases. The..

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£17.9 million research grant to discover new treatments for fungal diseases gets underway

A team of leading infectious disease scientists from academia and industry have been awarded £17.9 million to identify new drugs..

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Research led by the Mode of Action Group Offers New Hope Against Deadly Parasitic Disease

Scientists from the WCAIR and De Montfort University uncover how promising compounds work, paving the way for potentially life-saving treatments..

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Dundee team to research the parasite household cleaning products cannot kill

A leading authority on Cryptosporidium has warned of an urgent need for greater awareness and more fundamental research of the..

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Publications

Comparative metabolism of conjugated and unconjugated pterins in Crithidia, Leishmania and African trypanosomes.

Han B. Ong, Susan Wyllie, Alan H. Fairlamb Neglected Tropical Diseases 19(7): e0013332   Abstract Mammalian cells synthesise tetrahydrobiopterin de novo,..

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Plasmodium falciparum protein kinase 6 and hemozoin formation are inhibited by a type II human kinase inhibitor exhibiting antimalarial activity

Nardella, Florea; Jiang, Tiantianb; Wang, Lushunc;Bohmer, Monica J.a; Chakraborty, Subhojaa; ...Marcus C.S. Lee...Debopma Chakrabati. Cell Chemical Biology Volume 32, Issue..

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Antitrypanosomal quinazolines targeting lysyl-tRNA synthetase show partial efficacy in a mouse model of acute Chagas disease.

Lindsay B. Tulloch, Hugh Tawell, Annie E. Taylor, Marta Lopes Lima , Alice Dawson , Sandra Carvalho, Richard J. Wall,..

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Structure–activity relationships of 1,5-dihydro-2H-benzo[b][1,4]diazepine-2,4(3H)-diones as inhibitors of Trypanosoma cruzi

Michael G Thomas,  Joanne Dunne, Peter G Dodd,  Emiliana D'Oria,  Laura Frame, Adolfo Garcia-Perez,  Kate McGonagle,  Pilar Manzano, Lorna MacLean,..

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