Basic Nitrogen (BaN) is a key property of antimalarial chemical space

H Valluri, A Bhanot, S Shah, N Bhandaru… - Journal of Medicinal …, 2023 - ACS Publications
Most antimalarials are based on basic N-heterocycles and possess amine functionalities.
Despite this, the role of basic nitrogen (BaN) in antimalarial drug design has not been …

Model‐informed drug development for anti‐infectives: state of the art and future

CR Rayner, PF Smith, D Andes… - Clinical …, 2021 - Wiley Online Library
Model‐informed drug development (MIDD) has a long and rich history in infectious
diseases. This review describes foundational principles of translational anti‐infective …

DNDI-6174 is a preclinical candidate for visceral leishmaniasis that targets the cytochrome bc1

S Braillard, M Keenan, KJ Breese, J Heppell… - Science translational …, 2023 - science.org
New drugs for visceral leishmaniasis that are safe, low cost, and adapted to the field are
urgently required. Despite concerted efforts over the last several years, the number of new …

Insights into drug Repurposing, as well as specificity and compound properties of piperidine-based SARS-CoV-2 PLpro inhibitors

DJ Calleja, N Kuchel, BGC Lu, RW Birkinshaw… - Frontiers in …, 2022 - frontiersin.org
The COVID-19 pandemic continues unabated, emphasizing the need for additional antiviral
treatment options to prevent hospitalization and death of patients infected with SARS-CoV-2 …

Potent antimalarials with development potential identified by structure-guided computational optimization of a pyrrole-based dihydroorotate dehydrogenase inhibitor …

MJ Palmer, X Deng, S Watts, G Krilov… - Journal of medicinal …, 2021 - ACS Publications
Dihydroorotate dehydrogenase (DHODH) has been clinically validated as a target for the
development of new antimalarials. Experience with clinical candidate triazolopyrimidine …

[HTML][HTML] Dose selection of chloroquine phosphate for treatment of COVID-19 based on a physiologically based pharmacokinetic model

C Cui, M Zhang, X Yao, S Tu, Z Hou, VSJ En… - … Pharmaceutica Sinica B, 2020 - Elsevier
Chloroquine (CQ) phosphate has been suggested to be clinically effective in the treatment of
coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19). To develop a physiologically-based pharmacokinetic …

Quantifying risks avoided by limiting global warming to 1.5 or 2° C above pre-industrial levels

R Warren, O Andrews, S Brown, FJ Colón-González… - Climatic Change, 2022 - Springer
Abstract The Paris Agreement aims to constrain global warming to 'well below 2° C'and to
'pursue efforts' to limit it to 1.5° C above pre-industrial levels. We quantify global and …

Solar geoengineering could redistribute malaria risk in developing countries

CJ Carlson, R Colwell, MS Hossain… - Nature …, 2022 - nature.com
Solar geoengineering is often framed as a stopgap measure to decrease the magnitude,
impacts, and injustice of climate change. However, the benefits or costs of geoengineering …

Pyronaridine: a review of its clinical pharmacology in the treatment of malaria

WY Chu, TPC Dorlo - Journal of Antimicrobial Chemotherapy, 2023 - academic.oup.com
Pyronaridine-artesunate was recently strongly recommended in the 2022 update of the
WHO Guidelines for the Treatment of Malaria, becoming the newest artemisinin-based …

Discovery and structure–activity relationships of quinazolinone-2-carboxamide derivatives as novel orally efficacious antimalarials

B Laleu, Y Akao, A Ochida, S Duffy… - Journal of medicinal …, 2021 - ACS Publications
A phenotypic high-throughput screen allowed discovery of quinazolinone-2-carboxamide
derivatives as a novel antimalarial scaffold. Structure–activity relationship studies led to …