Merck & Co. And Gates Foundation Drug Hunters Hopeful Of A TB Breakthrough

Not-For-Profit To Develop Merck’s Compounds

The Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation has brought together big pharma companies and academic institutes in a non-profit venture to find new drugs to improve tuberculosis treatment. One participant, Merck & Co, talks to Scrip about two promising novel molecules that it discovered for the Foundation’s Medical Research Institute to develop.

Lungs and pills
Before SARS-CoV-2, tuberculosis was the world’s biggest infectious disease killer, and with the pandemic waning it is expected to regain its title soon. • Source: Shutterstock

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