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Open Source Technology, Existing Medicines Key to Treating COVID-19, Advocates Say

"Open source pharma advocates say pooling data and drug repurposing could halve the costs and speed up vaccine and drug development, which can take decades and cost pharmaceutical companies billions of dollars."

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How open-source medicine could prepare us for the next pandemic

"The old drug discovery system was built to benefit shareholders, not patients. But a new, Linux-like platform could transform the way medicine is developed—and energize the race against COVID-19."

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Why open source pharma is the path to both new and cheaper medicines

“There has been a lot of talk about alternative ways of doing things. Ways of bringing medicines to market that are different and which might plug some of the gaps we face.”

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We should own our own livelihood and our own dream

"Open source research collaborations are an important and timely strategy to advance and possibly accelerate medical innovation," she says, "including in the area of neglected diseases where knowledge sharing is even more critical than in other fields. [...] When she came across an online "virtual laboratory" enabling researchers to carry out important work from home, she jumped at the chance to get involved..."

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Can open-source drug development deliver?

“That’s why OSPF’s first clinical trials will focus on repurposed drugs; some existing drugs developed for one disease often show promise against others (an epileptic drug might work against tuberculosis, for instance).”

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Tata Trusts Support OSPF — the ‘Linux for drugs’

“The initiative borrows from the Linux model, where it is end-to-end open source, and publically funded. So data is made public at every stage for academics, non- governmental organisations, communities or drug companies to get involved and work on a research lead.”

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Open Source Covid Movement: A Non-Capitalist Alternative to Covid Control

"In many countries, open source activists are trying to find software to track people with Covid via mobile phone without losing privacy. In collaboration with the European Vaccine Initiative etc. The Open Source Pharma Foundation has started research on Covid vaccine discovery."

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This article originally written in Malayalam has been translated into English and over 10 other languages