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Novartis TB Drugs Go To Nonprofit

by Michael McCoy
August 25, 2014 | A version of this story appeared in Volume 92, Issue 34

Novartis has licensed the tuberculosis-fighting drugs in its portfolio to the nonprofit Global Alliance for TB Drug Development. The drugs, discovered at the Novartis Institutes for Tropical Diseases, include a class of compounds called indolcarboxamides. One of these compounds, NITD304, has been shown to block MmpL3, a protein essential to the TB bacterium’s survival. The agreement calls for the TB Alliance to fully take over Novartis’s TB R&D program, including financial responsibility for approval and distribution of compounds.

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