The Open Source Drug Discovery Project is applying open source principles to smash barriers and accelerate drug research for diseases like TB which still kills 1.7 million people a year. The Open ...

Research focus: Kitano is working with CSIR's open source drug discovery project, which aims to develop a new TB drug molecule in two years. Ramesh Pathania / Mint New Delhi: Hiroaki Kitano, a ...

Hit by funds crunch since 2014, the Open Source Drug Discovery (OSDD) Project — fronted by the Council of Scientific and Industrial Research (CSIR) and conceived as a unique global programme to find ...

The Open Source Drug Discovery (OSDD) program India set up in 2008 promised to disrupt the current model and deliver new treatments for neglected diseases. Six years later, OSDD is still working ...

On a computer screen, UC Jaleel, a pharmaceutical researcher, shows me a complicated blue structure suspended against a black background. It looks like the outline of a giant lump of quartz. Jaleel ...

It is an idea that has not set the country on fire, but has been noticed all over the world. For a few years now, it has been knocking at the doors of international technology awards, but losing out ...

Hundreds of scientists gathered in the Indian capital today to develop an online gene map for Mycobacterium tuberculosis, the TB causing bug. The massive exercise could help make cheaper drugs to cure ...

Crowdsourcing can boast of many success stories today, but in 2008, when the Council for Scientific and Industrial Research (CSIR) launched such an effort for drug discovery, there weren’t many. Four ...

India's Open Source Drug Discovery (OSDD) project has drawn criticism from geneticists for not publishing its first results in a peer-reviewed journal. Researchers have also dismissed as hype some of ...