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Pharmaceuticals

Eisai Teams With Liverpool Academics

by Rick Mullin
March 31, 2014 | A version of this story appeared in Volume 92, Issue 13

Eisai, a Japanese pharmaceutical firm, has formed a partnership with Liverpool School of Tropical Medicine and the University of Liverpool to jointly identify new drugs effective against lymphatic filariasis and onchocerciasis, or river blindness. Both diseases, affecting a combined 150 million people worldwide, are forms of filariasis, a parasitic disease caused by threadlike roundworms. The partners will work to develop drug candidates that effectively eliminate the bacteria Wolbachia, which the worms depend on for growth.

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