News about 'drug discovery'

Tuberculosis continues to become more resistant to existing drug regimens resulting in a need for constant innovation on the part of drug researchers. In an article published by Medicalxpress.com which can be found here , researchers are reported to have found a chemical alteration that makes...

10 June 2015 – Geneva, Switzerland – The Stop TB Partnership is today launching the online consultation into the first public draft of the Global Plan to Stop TB 2016-2020. The consultation process is open to everyone to share information, ideas and experiences, and, will run from 10 June to 10...

Tuberculosis Drug Development: Towards a Critical Path for Developing New Regimes to Treat Tuberculosis Volume 211 suppl 3 June 15, 2015 Click here for access to supplement Articles: Eric Nuermberger and Debra Hanna Assessing the Landscape of Tools and Approaches for Novel Tuberculosis Regimen...

Researchers at the Center for Tuberculosis Research located at Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine have shown that heart medication, verapamil administered in combination with bedaquline lowers the toxicity of the TB drug without altering its efficacy. The paper, titled ‘ Verapamil...

We invite you to join us for the Stop TB Partnership Working Group on New Drugs’ Annual Meeting 2014 at AC Hotel Barcelona Forum , Barcelona, Spain, on Wednesday, Oct. 29th from 15:00 to 19:00. This meeting is held before the 45th Union World Conference on Lung Health (The Union). During the...

A new study published by Dr. Kyu Rhee ’s laboratory at the Weill Cornell Medical College details a potential mechanism driving Mycobacterium tuberculosis’ intrinsic resistance to antibiotics. Physicians and scientists have known for many years that tuberculosis is intrinsically resistant to...

Dr. Iwao Ojima Dr. Iwao Ojima is a Distinguished Professor and Director of the Institute of Chemical Biology and Drug Discovery at Stony Brook University. His group recently published a paper in PLOS One entitled A Trisubstituted Benzimidazole Cell Division Inhibitor with Efficacy against...

The drug SQ109, developed by Sequella for the treatment of tuberculosis, blocks key biochemical pathways in bacteria, fungi, and parasites. The multiple targets of SQ109 have been determined by researchers at the University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign. The researchers also created analogs of SQ109...

Vadim Makarov et. al. Towards a new combination therapy for tuberculosis with next generation benzothiazinones . EMBO Molecular Medicine. 2014. March 1; 6(3). doi: 10.1002/emmm.201303575 A new antibiotic, labeled ‘PBTZ169’, has been shown to be effective against drug sensitive and MDR-tuberculosis...

Richard E. Lee et al. Spectinamides: a new class of semisynthetic antituberculosis agents that overcome native drug efflux . Nature Medicine. 2014. March 6; 20(152). doi:10.1038/nm.3458 Abstract: Although the classical antibiotic spectinomycin is a potent bacterial protein synthesis inhibitor, poor...

By: Shashank Gupta ( sgupta33@jhmi.edu ) In a significant finding for millions of TB patients, researchers have recently shown that adjunct chemotherapy with verapamil can accelerate tuberculosis treatment in mouse model. Investigators at Johns Hopkins School of Medicine have found that adding...

Click here to access full report Source: Treatment Action Group The Tuberculosis Treatment Pipeline June 2013 Better than Ever Is Not Good Enough By Erica Lessem Introduction In December 2012, tuberculosis (TB) treatment reached a historic landmark with the first approval by a stringent regulatory...

We invite you to join us for the “Targets for Tomorrow” satellite workshop hosted by the WGND Biology/Targets Subgroup on Monday, July 22, 2013 from 2 p.m. to 4:30 p.m. at the Renaissance Tuscany Il Ciocco Resort , Lucca (Barga), Italy. The workshop is held in conjunction with the Gordon Conference...

Vilchèze C, Hartman T, Weinrick B, and Jacobs W. Mycobacterium tuberculosis is extraordinarily sensitive to killing by a vitamin C-induced Fenton reaction . Nature Communications. 2013 May 21; 4(1881). doi:10.1038/ncomms2898 Abstract: Drugs that kill tuberculosis more quickly could shorten...

This week we highlight an interview with Dr. Douglas Lowrie, a Senior Research Fellow at Fudan University’s Shanghai Public Health Clinical Center in China. He discusses the extent of the problem of TB in China and innovative research on enhancing TB treatment using immunotherapeutic vaccines.