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Mission

The mission of Developing World Cures (DWC) is to discover and develop medicines, diagnostics, and devices to treat neglected diseases in the developing world.

Infectious diseases, bacterial, parasitic protozoan, helminth (worm), and diarrheal diseases plague more than one billion people in the developing world. These neglected diseases of developing countries have devastating effects on public health. Life-long disabilities, loss of the ability to work, disfigurement and death are often the outcome. In addition to the toll on human suffering, infectious diseases cripple the economies of the developing world. Many who are handicapped by disease are quickly transformed from net economic contributors into recipients of their countries’ welfare system. 

The need for effective treatments and cures is obvious and acute but the response from the developed world has often been muted. This stems from a variety of factors. The majority of infectious diseases are not endemic to the developed world. In addition, most for-profit biotechnology and pharmaceutical companies, owing a paramount duty to shareholders, do not unleash their substantial resources and research and development acumen to combat developing world diseases for lack of financial incentive.

Developing World Cures aims to correct this disconnect.

Organized as a non-profit corporation, DWC represents a “new non-profit paradigm” linking university basic research with industry-trained scientists experienced in medicinal chemistry, pharmacokinetics/drug metabolism, and pre-clinical and clinical development. The collaboration between these two groups is the key translational element that will bring DWC projects to therapeutic reality.