CSIR’s Open Source Drug Discovery is Scouting for CROs to Pursue Advanced Study on TB

The Council of Scientific and Industrial Research (CSIR)'s 'Open Source Drug Discovery' (OSDD) programme is now expanding its drug experimental capabilities. In this regard it is scouting for contract research organizations (CROs) across the country to pursue studies on tuberculosis.

According to officials at the CSIR, there is need to validate and tap the ever increasing computational and experimental leads. The Council is now looking at organizations which have the adequate infrastructure for drug discovery...

...The OSDD was introduced by CSIR in 2008 has launched an innovative system to combat infectious diseases that afflict the developing world. OSDD is a CSIR-led consortium with global partnerships to provide affordable healthcare especially to the weaker sections of global populations...