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Paratek Pharmaceuticals and Medicines for Malaria Venture Collaborate to Discover Novel Antimalarial Compounds.

Publication: PR Newswire
Publication Date: 24-FEB-04 		Format: Online
Delivery: Immediate Online Access

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BOSTON, Massachusetts and GENEVA, Switzerland, February 24 /PRNewswire/ -- Paratek Pharmaceuticals, Inc. and Medicines for Malaria Venture (MMV), a non-profit foundation, have announced today that they are forming a partnership to discover new weapons to fight Plasmodium falciparum, the most common and deadly form of malaria. The project will investigate novel tetracycline derivatives which have shown activities against the malaria parasite. MMV's grant will continue earlier efforts supported by a Phase I Small Business Innovative Research grant awarded by the National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases in 2002.

Malaria infects an estimated 300 to 500 million people around the world. Plasmodium falciparum infections in particular kill more than one million annually, mostly...

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