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

Not-For-Profit To Develop Merck’s Compounds

 
• By Andrew McConaghie

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.

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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

A long-term not-for-profit collaboration between the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation, pharma companies, government and academic researchers aimed at finding better therapies for tuberculosis is beginning to pay off.

Scientists from one of the participating companies, Merck & Co., recently handed over two newly discovered novel antibiotic drug...

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