DiscoBio News

AstraZeneca and Medicines for Malaria Venture (MMV) announced a collaborative agreement designed to identify novel candidate drugs for the treatment of malaria. Discovery Biology will undertake the screenign of 500,000 compounds on behalf of MMV. Read more here: AZ & MMV article

Head of Discovery Biology, Vicky Avery and Malaria group leader Sandra Duffy have had their work published in today’s edition of Nature. The article ‘Chemical Genetics of Plasmodium falciparum‘ was a collaborative effort with several international laboratories. W. Armand Guiguemde, Anang A. Shelat, David Bouck, Sandra Duffy, Gregory J. Crowther, Paul H. Davis, David Smithson, Michele Connelly, Julie Clark, Fangyi Zhu, Maria B. Jiménez-Díaz, Maria S. Martinez, Emily Wilson, Abhai K. Tripathi, Jiri  Gut, Elizabeth R. Sharlow, Ian Bathurst, Farah …