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Pic Alan Richardson Dundee, Pix-AR.co.uk
Professor Ian Gilbert, (Left) Chair of Medicinal Chemistry at The University of Dundee and Dr Kevin Read, co-project leader who are developing a new antimalarial medicine in partnership with the Medicines for Malaria Venture (MMV). The compound developed in the Drug Discovery Unit at Dundee has been selected by MMV, following a positive recommendation by MMV’s Expert Scientific Advisory Committee, to enter preclinical development. Every year, there are over 200 million cases of malaria across the globe, resulting in about 627,000 deaths from this disease
