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ReviewTrends in parasitology2021

MalDA, Accelerating Malaria Drug Discovery.

Tuo Yang, Sabine Ottilie, Eva S Istvan, Karla P Godinez-Macias, Amanda K Lukens, Beatriz Baragaña, Brice Campo, Chris Walpole, Jacquin C Niles, Kelly Chibale and 14 more

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Review in Trends in parasitology, 2021. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 52 papers, 1 of them a synthesis that pooled it.

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1 · What the graph read from it

What it found

Each row is one number read from the abstract, on the scale the paper reported it, with its interval. Left of the dashed line favours the treatment, right favours the comparator. Under each row is the sentence it came from. New to these charts? A ten-minute tutorial.

The abstract states no effect estimate the extractor could read, or names no intervention and outcome on the map, so this paper lights no cell and moves no belief. It is still indexed, cited and linked below.

2 · The registry

The trial behind it

Trials whose registry record cites this paper, or whose number appears in the abstract. A trial that started after this paper was published is citing it as background, not reporting it.

Neither the registry nor the abstract names a trial number. If this is a trial report, that itself is worth knowing.

3 · Its place in the literature

Who cites it

52 citing papers in PubMed, 1 synthesis or guideline pooled it.

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4 · The record

Corrections and comments

PubMed lists nothing against this paper. Absence here is not a guarantee, only a check that was made.

5 · Who and what money

Authors and funding

24 authors.

Tuo YangDepartment of Pediatrics, School of Medicine, University of California, San Diego (UCSD), La Jolla, CA 92093, USA.
Sabine OttilieDepartment of Pediatrics, School of Medicine, University of California, San Diego (UCSD), La Jolla, CA 92093, USA.
Eva S IstvanDepartment of Internal Medicine, Division of Infectious Diseases, Washington University School of Medicine, Saint Louis, MO 63130, USA; Department of Molecular Microbiology, Washington University School of Medicine, Saint Louis, MO 63130, USA.
Karla P Godinez-MaciasBioinformatics and Systems Biology Graduate Program, University of California, San Diego (UCSD), La Jolla, CA 92093, USA.
Amanda K LukensDepartment of Immunology and Infectious Diseases, Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health, Boston, MA 02115, USA; Infectious Disease and Microbiome Program, Broad Institute, Cambridge, MA 02142, USA.
Beatriz BaragañaWellcome Center for Anti-Infectives Research, Division of Biological Chemistry and Drug Discovery, University of Dundee, Dundee DD1 5EH, UK.
Brice CampoMedicines for Malaria Venture, 1215 Geneva 15, Switzerland.
Chris WalpoleStructural Genomics Consortium, Research Institute of the McGill University Health Centre, Montreal, QC H4A 3J1, Canada.
Jacquin C NilesDepartment of Biological Engineering, Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT), Building 56-341, 77 Massachusetts Avenue, Cambridge MA 02139-4307, USA.
Kelly ChibaleDrug Discovery and Development Centre (H3D), University of Cape Town, Rondebosch 7701, South Africa; South African Medical Research Council Drug Discovery and Development Research Unit, Department of Chemistry and Institute of Infectious Disease and Molecular Medicine, University of Cape Town, Rondebosch 7701, South Africa.
Koen J DecheringTropIQ Health Sciences, 6534 AT, Nijmegen, The Netherlands.
Manuel LlinásDepartment of Biochemistry and Molecular Biology and Department of Chemistry, Huck Center for Malaria Research, The Pennsylvania State University, University Park, PA 16082, USA.
Marcus C S LeeWellcome Sanger Institute, Wellcome Genome Campus, Hinxton, UK.
Nobutaka KatoGlobal Health Drug Discovery Institute, Zhongguancun Dongsheng International Science Park, 1 North Yongtaizhuang Road, Beijing 100192, China.
Susan WyllieWellcome Center for Anti-Infectives Research, Division of Biological Chemistry and Drug Discovery, University of Dundee, Dundee DD1 5EH, UK.
Case W McNamaraCalibr, a division of The Scripps Research Institute, La Jolla, CA 92037, USA.
Francisco Javier GamoTres Cantos Medicines Development Campus, Diseases of the Developing World, GlaxoSmithKline, Tres Cantos, 28760, Madrid, Spain.
Jeremy BurrowsMedicines for Malaria Venture, 1215 Geneva 15, Switzerland.
David A FidockDepartment of Microbiology and Immunology and Division of Infectious Diseases, Department of Medicine, Columbia University Irving Medical Center, New York, NY 10032, USA.
Daniel E GoldbergDepartment of Internal Medicine, Division of Infectious Diseases, Washington University School of Medicine, Saint Louis, MO 63130, USA; Department of Molecular Microbiology, Washington University School of Medicine, Saint Louis, MO 63130, USA.
Ian H GilbertWellcome Center for Anti-Infectives Research, Division of Biological Chemistry and Drug Discovery, University of Dundee, Dundee DD1 5EH, UK.
Dyann F WirthDepartment of Immunology and Infectious Diseases, Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health, Boston, MA 02115, USA; Infectious Disease and Microbiome Program, Broad Institute, Cambridge, MA 02142, USA.
Elizabeth A WinzelerDepartment of Pediatrics, School of Medicine, University of California, San Diego (UCSD), La Jolla, CA 92093, USA. Electronic address: ewinzeler@health.ucsd.edu.
Malaria Drug Accelerator Consortium

Funding

Role of pfcrt in chloroquine resistance in P. falciparumR01AI050234 · NIAID · YESHIVA UNIVERSITY · PI FIDOCK, DAVID A · 2001 to 2015
$5.7M
Defining the Role of PfCRT and PfMDR1 as Pleiotropic Mediators of Plasmodium falciparum Multidrug ResistanceR37AI050234 · NIAID · COLUMBIA UNIVERSITY HEALTH SCIENCES · PI David A Fidock · 2018 to 2026
$4.4M
Elucidating the molecular basis of piperaquine resistance in Plasmodium falciparumR01AI124678 · NIAID · COLUMBIA UNIVERSITY HEALTH SCIENCES · PI David A Fidock · 2016 to 2026
$4.3M
Discovery of long-acting, chemoprotective antimalarial compoundsR01AI152533 · NIAID · UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA, SAN DIEGO · PI WINZELER, ELIZABETH A · 2020 to 2024
$3.5M
Proline homeostasis: a novel mediator of drug tolerance in Plasmodium falciparumR01AI143723 · NIAID · HARVARD UNIVERSITY D/B/A HARVARD SCHOOL OF PUBLIC HEALTH · PI MAZITSCHEK, RALPH, WIRTH, DYANN F · 2020 to 2024
$3.4M
Toxoplasma in the GI tract: Protective role of a parasite protease inhibitorR21AI152551 · NIAID · JOHNS HOPKINS UNIVERSITY · PI COPPENS, ISABELLE · 2020 to 2021
$450k
Exploring the parasite genomics of severe falciparum malaria in MozambiqueR21AI152511 · NIAID · UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA, SAN DIEGO · PI WINZELER, ELIZABETH A · 2020 to 2021
$421k
NIAID NIH HHS R01 AI050234NIAID NIH HHS R01 AI124678NIAID NIH HHS R01 AI143723NIAID NIH HHS R01 AI152533NIAID NIH HHS R21 AI152511NIAID NIH HHS R21 AI152551NIAID NIH HHS R37 AI050234Wellcome Trust
6 · The paper itself

Abstract

The Malaria Drug Accelerator (MalDA) is a consortium of 15 leading scientific laboratories. The aim of MalDA is to improve and accelerate the early antimalarial drug discovery process by identifying new, essential, druggable targets. In addition, it seeks to produce early lead inhibitors that may be advanced into drug candidates suitable for preclinical development and subsequent clinical testing in humans. By sharing resources, including expertise, knowledge, materials, and reagents, the consortium strives to eliminate the structural barriers often encountered in the drug discovery process. Here we discuss the mission of the consortium and its scientific achievements, including the identification of new chemically and biologically validated targets, as well as future scientific directions.

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Drug DiscoveryAntimalarialsMalariaPlasmodiumTimeAntimalarialsdrug resistancemalariaMalDAPlasmodium falciparumtarget-based drug discovery

Identifiers

PMID33648890
PMCPMC8261838

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