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Institute for OneWorld Health Highlights Need for New Chagas Disease Treatments in BBC TV Series
BBC TV airs a 25-minute program on Chagas disease and treatment efforts, including a compound donated by a biotechnology company to OneWorld Health, the first nonprofit pharmaceutical company in the U.S. Chagas is a parasitic disease of the Americas that most commonly affects the heart. OneWorld Health develops new, affordable medicines for infectious diseases that disproportionately affect people in the developing world. The program is part of a new BBC TV “Kill or Cure” series that cover 10 diseases globally, focusing on the patients, the scientists and doctors developing new drugs and ways of preventing infection.
WHO
Discussions of drug development progress in Chagas disease feature Victoria Hale, Ph.D., CEO and Founder of OneWorld Health; James McKerrow, M.D., Ph.D., Professor, Departments of Pathology, Medicine and Pharmaceutical Chemistry, University of California at San Francisco; and James T. Palmer, Ph.D., Senior Director of Medicinal Chemistry, Celera Genomics, South San Francisco, whose company donated a compound as a potential treatment.
WHEN
22:30 (GMT) Thursday, 27 January
02:30 (GMT) Friday, 28 January
09:30 (GMT) Friday
17:30 (GMT) Friday
03:30 (GMT) Sunday, 30 January
Check local times for the “Kill or Cure” TV series at the BBC World website .
WHERE
Worldwide except the United States