Hope For Treating The Most Infectious And Neglected Diseases - Visceral Leishmaniasis, Chagas Disease, And Sleeping Sickness

The Paris-based Institut de Recherche pour le Développement (IRD) and DNDi announced the implementation of scientific cooperation projects for developing treatments against visceral leishmaniasis, Chagas disease, and sleeping sickness. One of these projects concerns group of quinolines molecules that reached the optimization phase, a step that represents a significant breakthrough to become a drug candidate.

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Filed under: Tropical on June 19th, 2008