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Open Source Pharma Foundation receives honorable mention for its work harnessing the power of data, machine learning, or artificial intelligence to understand the world and empower change.
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The century-old BCG tuberculosis vaccine, accessible to billions, trusted by billions, and which costs only 15 cents a dose, shows 92% efficacy against COVID-19 in very small clinical trial by Professor Denise Faustman of Harvard Medical School.
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In 2016, Jaykumar Menon, a human-rights lawyer based in New York, founded the Open Source Pharma Foundation to address market failures in drug development… One of its goals is to create new vaccines that leverage trained immunity for what it calls 'ultra-broad spectrum' coverage.
Read ArticleOriginally published in Malayalam by Dr. B. Ekbal on 22 May 2020; translated into more than ten languages.
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The old drug discovery system was built to benefit shareholders, not patients. But a new, Linux-like platform could transform the way medicine is developed—and energize the race against COVID-19.
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The initiative borrows from the Linux model, where it is end-to-end open source, and publically funded. So data is made public at every stage for academics, non-governmental organisations, communities or drug companies to get involved and work on a research lead.
Read Article“I call on all countries, companies, and research institutions to support open data, open science, and open collaboration so all people can enjoy the benefits of science and research.”
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