Word: melarsoprol
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...research system is woefully unprepared to address the needs of the developing world. Tens of millions of individuals suffer from “neglected disease” for which there is insufficient market potential to attract private sector response. For example, the most widely used drug for sleeping sickness, Melarsoprol, was developed over 50 years ago. Arsenic-based, it is extremely painful to administer and is so toxic that it kills five percent of those who take it. Given Harvard’s intellectual capital and advanced technology, it could easily adopt financial and professional incentives to encourage its current...
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