Antimalarial drug resistance: linking Plasmodium falciparum parasite biology to the clinic

B Blasco, D Leroy, DA Fidock - Nature medicine, 2017 - nature.com
The global adoption of artemisinin-based combination therapies (ACTs) in the early 2000s
heralded a new era in effectively treating drug-resistant Plasmodium falciparum malaria …

New developments in anti-malarial target candidate and product profiles

JN Burrows, S Duparc, WE Gutteridge… - Malaria journal, 2017 - Springer
A decade of discovery and development of new anti-malarial medicines has led to a
renewed focus on malaria elimination and eradication. Changes in the way new anti …

Drugs in development for malaria

EA Ashley, AP Phyo - Drugs, 2018 - Springer
The last two decades have seen a surge in antimalarial drug development with product
development partnerships taking a leading role. Resistance of Plasmodium falciparum to the …

Artemisinin-Resistant Plasmodium falciparum Malaria

RM Fairhurst, AM Dondorp - Microbiology spectrum, 2016 - Am Soc Microbiol
For more than five decades, Southeast Asia (SEA) has been fertile ground for the
emergence of drug-resistant Plasmodium falciparum malaria. After generating parasites …

[HTML][HTML] Chemical probes and drug leads from advances in synthetic planning and methodology

CJ Gerry, SL Schreiber - Nature Reviews Drug Discovery, 2018 - nature.com
Screening of small-molecule libraries is a productive method for identifying both chemical
probes of disease-related targets and potential starting points for drug discovery. In this …

malERA: an updated research agenda for malaria elimination and eradication

RN Rabinovich, C Drakeley, AA Djimde, BF Hall… - PLoS …, 2017 - journals.plos.org
Achieving a malaria-free world presents exciting scientific challenges as well as
overwhelming health, equity, and economic benefits. WHO and countries are setting …

Challenges and recent progress in drug discovery for tropical diseases

M De Rycker, B Baragaña, SL Duce, IH Gilbert - Nature, 2018 - nature.com
Infectious tropical diseases have a huge effect in terms of mortality and morbidity, and
impose a heavy economic burden on affected countries. These diseases predominantly …

Antiplasmodial natural products: an update

N Tajuddeen, FR Van Heerden - Malaria journal, 2019 - Springer
Background Malaria remains a significant public health challenge in regions of the world
where it is endemic. An unprecedented decline in malaria incidences was recorded during …

Multistage and transmission-blocking targeted antimalarials discovered from the open-source MMV Pandemic Response Box

J Reader, ME van der Watt, D Taylor… - Nature …, 2021 - nature.com
Chemical matter is needed to target the divergent biology associated with the different life
cycle stages of Plasmodium. Here, we report the parallel de novo screening of the …

Transmission-blocking drugs for malaria elimination

LM Birkholtz, P Alano, D Leroy - Trends in parasitology, 2022 - cell.com
Preventing human-to-mosquito transmission of malaria parasites provides possible
solutions to interrupt the malaria parasite life cycle for malaria elimination. The development …