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Open Calls We are pleased to announce that the State Secretariat for Education, Research and Innovation (SERI) has renewed our Leading House Africa mandate for 2025–2028. We will soon provide updates on
The quality of OpenStreetMap food-related point-of-interest data for use in epidemiological research (Publications)
We assessed the quality of food-related OpenStreetMap (OSM) data in urban areas of five European countries. We calculated agreement statistics between point-of-interests (POIs) from OSM and from Google
A pyridyl-furan series developed from the Open Global Health Library block red blood cell invasion and protein trafficking in <em>Plasmodium... (Publications)
discover new drug targets and to develop new medicines against these targets. We therefore screened the Open Global Health Library of Merck KGaA, Darmstadt, Germany, of 250 compounds against the asexual blood
Screening open access compound libraries and repurposing drugs to identify and characterize new molecules active against schistosomiasis and other... (Publications)
hic early drug development with a strong emphasis on schistosomiasis. Activity-based screening of open access libraries has identified new potent antischistosomal molecules. Investigating the activity [...] that could be used for further compound development. Finally, this work highlights the importance of open access libraries, drug repurposing and non-profit product development partnerships to stimulate the
Efficacy and safety of acoziborole in patients with human African trypanosomiasis caused by <em>Trypanosoma brucei gambiense</em>: a multicentre,... (Publications)
acoziborole in adult and adolescent patients with gambiense HAT. Methods This multicentre, prospective, open-label, single-arm, phase 2/3 study recruited patients aged 15 years or older with confirmed gambiense
Efficacy and safety of moxidectin and albendazole compared with ivermectin and albendazole coadministration in adolescents infected with <em>Trichuris... (Publications)
and albendazole against T trichiura in adolescents living on Pemba Island, Tanzania. METHODS: This open-label, non-inferiority, randomised, controlled, phase 2/3 trial was done in four secondary schools
Oral fexinidazole for stage 1 or early stage 2 African <em>Trypanosoma brucei gambiense</em> trypanosomiasis: a prospective, multicentre, open-label,... (Publications)
the safety and efficacy of fexinidazole in early g-HAT. METHODS: In this prospective, multicentre, open-label, single-arm cohort study, patients with stage 1 or early stage 2 g-HAT were recruited from eight