The Sandler Center for Basic Research in Parasitic Diseases establishes a consortium of core laboratories to support development of new drugs for global parasitic diseases largely ignored by the pharmaceutical industry. Our specific focus is to provide a drug development pipeline from target discovery through Phase I to fill a gap normally addressed in the industrial sector.
Reseachers interested in drug development may be interested in:
Low Hanging Fruit
(an open source website of phenotypic cell based screens of the agents of major neglected tropical diseases of versus compounds approved for human use.
ZINC Database
ZINC, a free database of commercially-available compounds for virtual screening. ZINC contains over 4.6 million compounds in ready-to-dock, 3D formats.