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Discovering an Antimalarial Drug in Mao’s China

Codon

However, the blandly clinical package of artemisinin and artesunate tablets reveals little about how the key compound was first discovered. When Louis Miller, now Chief of Malaria Cell Biology at the NIH, attended a malaria conference in Shanghai in 2008, he asked: Who discovered artemisinin? Nobody had an answer.

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Reinventing the small molecule toolbox: from proteins to RNA

Dark Matter Blog

Prior to 2015, I had a casual relationship, at best, with targeting RNA. Targeting RNA is a Whole New World Then in 2015, I became smitten and eloped with RNA, setting out to build a company devoted to bringing to bear industrial drug discovery concepts and methods on a new problem of drugging RNA with small molecules.