Approaches to advance drug discovery for neglected tropical diseases

LLG Ferreira, J de Moraes, AD Andricopulo - Drug Discovery Today, 2022 - Elsevier
Neglected tropical diseases (NTDs), which include leishmaniasis, Chagas disease, human
African trypanosomiasis (HAT), and schistosomiasis, remain public health problems in …

Unpacking the Pathogen Box—an open source tool for fighting neglected tropical disease

CGL Veale - ChemMedChem, 2019 - Wiley Online Library
Abstract The Pathogen Box is a 400‐strong collection of drug‐like compounds, selected for
their potential against several of the world's most important neglected tropical diseases …

Of drugs and trypanosomatids: new tools and knowledge to reduce bottlenecks in drug discovery

A Bhattacharya, A Corbeil, RL do Monte-Neto… - Genes, 2020 - mdpi.com
Leishmaniasis (Leishmania species), sleeping sickness (Trypanosoma brucei), and Chagas
disease (Trypanosoma cruzi) are devastating and globally spread diseases caused by …

Screening the medicines for malaria venture pathogen box across multiple pathogens reclassifies starting points for open-source drug discovery

S Duffy, ML Sykes, AJ Jones, TB Shelper… - Antimicrobial agents …, 2017 - Am Soc Microbiol
Open-access drug discovery provides a substantial resource for diseases primarily affecting
the poor and disadvantaged. The open-access Pathogen Box collection is comprised of …

Identification of Attractive Drug Targets in Neglected-Disease Pathogens Using an In Silico Approach

GJ Crowther, D Shanmugam, SJ Carmona… - PLoS neglected …, 2010 - journals.plos.org
Background The increased sequencing of pathogen genomes and the subsequent
availability of genome-scale functional datasets are expected to guide the experimental …

Drug discovery and development for neglected parasitic diseases

AR Renslo, JH McKerrow - Nature chemical biology, 2006 - nature.com
Diseases caused by tropical parasites affect hundreds of millions of people worldwide but
have been largely neglected for drug development because they affect poor people in poor …

Neglected Tropical Diseases: Multi-Target-Directed Ligands in the Search for Novel Lead Candidates against Trypanosoma and Leishmania

A Cavalli, ML Bolognesi - Journal of Medicinal Chemistry, 2009 - ACS Publications
“We have never had such a sophisticated arsenal of technologies for treating diseases, yet
the gap in health outcomes keep getting wider. This is unacceptable.” This claim was made …

Recent approaches to chemical discovery and development against malaria and the neglected tropical diseases human African trypanosomiasis and schistosomiasis

M Njoroge, NM Njuguna, P Mutai… - Chemical …, 2014 - ACS Publications
Neglected tropical diseases (NTDs) refer to a group of infectious diseases, which though
treatable and/or preventable, remain a leading cause of morbidity and mortality among the …

Repurposing of the open access malaria box for kinetoplastid diseases identifies novel active scaffolds against trypanosomatids

M Kaiser, L Maes, LP Tadoori… - Journal of …, 2015 - journals.sagepub.com
Phenotypic screening had successfully been used for hit generation, especially in the field of
neglected diseases, in which feeding the drug pipeline with new chemotypes remains a …

An overview on target-based drug design against kinetoplastid protozoan infections: Human African trypanosomiasis, Chagas disease and leishmaniases

V Kourbeli, E Chontzopoulou, K Moschovou, D Pavlos… - Molecules, 2021 - mdpi.com
The protozoan diseases Human African Trypanosomiasis (HAT), Chagas disease (CD), and
leishmaniases span worldwide and therefore their impact is a universal concern. The …