What it would take to set up an African drug discovery ecosystem - The Conversation


6/28/2022 12:00:00 AM2 years 10 months ago
by Adrienne Edkins, Edwin Murungi, Fabrice Boyom, Heinrich Hoppe, Ozlem Tastan Bishop

Drug discovery research in Africa receives modest but essential international funding through philanthropic foundations and selected pharmaceutical companies.

Africa has great potential for drug discovery. The continent has natural resources, indigenous knowledge and human capacity. And it has the need: it bears more than 20% of the global disease burden. … [+6675 chars]

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