TropIKA.net Examines How Researchers Are Using 'Open-Source Principles' To Bolster TB Drug Development

TropIKA.net examines the efforts of a collaboration known as the Open Source Drug Discovery Foundation (OSDD), which is using "open-source principles" in hopes of accelerating the development of affordable drugs for diseases such as tuberculosis,malaria and leishmaniasis. "OSDD, the brainchild of India's Council of Scientific and Industrial Research (CSIR) in Delhi, is dedicated to developing drugs more cheaply by copying the model of the immensely successful open-source software movement," TropIKA.net writes. "OSDD collaborators are working on around 180 projects aimed at combating TB," according to the news service (Anderson, 3/17).