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Developing World Cures
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Our Mission… To discover and develop medicines, diagnostics, and devices to treat neglected diseases in the developing world.

In recent years, a handful of pharmaceutical companies and non-profit organizations have turned their attention to neglected diseases. Yet, there are still huge unmet medical needs and a dearth of organizations with the sophisticated skills needed to advance new therapeutics and diagnostics to solve these unmet medical needs in the developing world. DWC will bridge this gap and bring new and effective medicines and treatments to developing countries.

Our Strategic Focus is:

  • Diarrheal Diseases
  • Viral diseases, such as Dengue
  • Other neglected diseases of the developing world

Therapeutics, diagnostics, vaccines and devices are all within the scope of interest. DWC has made significant advances in identifying high potential projects within our disease scope and the rationale for pursuing these areas is as follows.

  • Diarrheal diseases kill 2-3 million children per year in the developing world and to date there is no effective therapy to stop the fluid loss nor target the specific causes of the illness. Children in the developing world can have up to 10 episodes of infectious diarrhea in one year and this leads to malnutrition and often death. A therapy is needed that stops both the fluid loss and the other symptoms of diarrhea.
  • Viral diseases, such as the mosquito-borne Dengue and Yellow fevers, cause substantial sickness and mortality in the developing world. For example, it is estimated that 100,000 new cases of Dengue fever are reported each year. In March of 2008 for instance, 23,500 new cases and 30 deaths were recorded in less than three months in Rio de Janeiro alone.
  • Easy to use diagnostics are needed in the developing world. Inexpensive, accurate and simple to use diagnostic assays are a way to make rapid and significant improvement in the diagnosis and management of neglected diseases.