MMV in natural products: harnessing the power of nature in malaria drug discovery.

Abstract

This document describes the work of some of MMV's partner organizations around the world in looking for potential new antimalarials from natural sources such as plants (including some identified many years before by a project looking for alternatives to quinine during World War II), fungi, bacteria and marine invertebrates.

Citation

MMV in natural products: harnessing the power of nature in malaria drug discovery. Medicines For Malaria Venture, Geneva, Switzerland. 4 pp.

MMV in natural products: harnessing the power of nature in malaria drug discovery.

Published 1 January 2009