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Screening strategies to identify new chemical diversity for drug development to treat kinetoplastid infections

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  28 August 2013

ROB DON  and
JEAN-ROBERT IOSET
ROB DON
Affiliation:
Drugs for Neglected Diseases initiative, 15 Chemin Louis-Dunant, 1202 Geneva, Switzerland
JEAN-ROBERT IOSET*
Affiliation:
Drugs for Neglected Diseases initiative, 15 Chemin Louis-Dunant, 1202 Geneva, Switzerland
*
*Corresponding author: Drugs for Neglected Diseases initiative, 15 Chemin Louis-Dunant, 1202 Geneva, Switzerland. Tel: +41 (0) 22 906 92 65. Fax: +41 (0) 22 906 92 31. E-mail: jrioset@dndi.org
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Summary

The Drugs for Neglected Diseases initiative (DNDi) has defined and implemented an early discovery strategy over the last few years, in fitting with its virtual R&D business model. This strategy relies on a medium- to high-throughput phenotypic assay platform to expedite the screening of compound libraries accessed through its collaborations with partners from the pharmaceutical industry. We review the pragmatic approaches used to select compound libraries for screening against kinetoplastids, taking into account screening capacity. The advantages, limitations and current achievements in identifying new quality series for further development into preclinical candidates are critically discussed, together with attractive new approaches currently under investigation.

Keywords

High-throughputhigh-contentscreeningDNDilibrary selectionhuman African trypanosomiasisLeishmaniasisChagas' disease
Type
Research Article
Information
Parasitology , Volume 141 , Issue 1: Symposia of the British Society for Parasitology volume 49 Emerging paradigms in anti-infective drug design , January 2014 , pp. 140 - 146
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Copyright © Cambridge University Press 2013 

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