Ramamoorthi Roopa, Graef Katy M, Dent Jennifer
BIO Ventures for Global Health, 401 Terry Avenue North, Seattle, WA 98109, United States.
Int J Parasitol Drugs Drug Resist. 2014 Sep 19;4(3):220-5. doi: 10.1016/j.ijpddr.2014.09.002. eCollection 2014 Dec.
Neglected tropical diseases (NTDs), malaria, and tuberculosis have a devastating effect on an estimated 1.6 billion people worldwide. The World Intellectual Property Organization (WIPO) Re:Search consortium accelerates the development of new drugs, vaccines, and diagnostics for these diseases by connecting the assets and resources of pharmaceutical companies, such as compound libraries and expertise, to academic or nonprofit researchers with novel product discovery or development ideas. As the WIPO Re:Search Partnership Hub Administrator, BIO Ventures for Global Health (BVGH) fields requests from researchers, identifies Member organizations able to fulfill these requests, and helps forge mutually beneficial collaborations. Since its inception in October 2011, WIPO Re:Search membership has expanded to more than 90 institutions, including leading pharmaceutical companies, universities, nonprofit research institutions, and product development partnerships from around the world. To date, WIPO Re:Search has facilitated over 70 research agreements between Consortium Members, including 11 collaborations focused on anthelmintic drug discovery.
被忽视的热带病、疟疾和结核病对全球约16亿人造成了毁灭性影响。世界知识产权组织(WIPO)Re:Search联盟通过将制药公司的资产和资源(如化合物库和专业知识)与拥有新产品发现或开发想法的学术或非营利研究人员相连接,加速了针对这些疾病的新药、疫苗和诊断方法的开发。作为WIPO Re:Search伙伴关系中心管理员,全球健康生物 Ventures(BVGH)处理研究人员的请求,确定能够满足这些请求的成员组织,并帮助促成互利合作。自2011年10月成立以来,WIPO Re:Search的成员已扩展到90多个机构,包括全球领先的制药公司、大学、非营利研究机构和产品开发伙伴关系组织。迄今为止,WIPO Re:Search已促成联盟成员之间达成70多项研究协议,其中包括11项专注于驱虫药物发现的合作。