The Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation has given a $42.6 million grant to the Institute for OneWorld Health to create a cure for malaria. OneWorld, America’s first nonprofit pharmaceutical company, will work with the University of California, Berkeley, and Amyris Biotechnologies, according to a statement from OneWorld. The research will focus on drugs containing the compound artemisinin, an extract of the wormwood plant. Treatments using this drug have shown nearly 100 percent effectiveness after a three-day regimen.
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Gates Gives $42.6 Million for Malaria Cure
Posted by: ECT News Desk December 13, 2004 10:41 AMThe Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation has given a $42.6 million grant to the Institute for OneWorld Health to create a cure for malaria. OneWorld, America’s first nonprofit pharmaceutical company, will work with the University of California, Berkeley, and Amyris Biotechnologies, according to a statement from OneWorld. The research will focus on drugs containing the compound artemisinin, an extract of the wormwood plant. Treatments using this drug have shown nearly 100 percent effectiveness after a three-day regimen.