About C2D

Open Source Drug Discovery (OSDD) Project in its quest towards conquest of Tuberculosis, is launching a massive initiative to further the understanding of the biology of the causative organism, Mycobacterium tuberculosis. The objective is to accelerate the discovery of novel drugs for TB, a disease neglected by Pharmaceutical enterprises.
Though Mtb was sequenced a decade back, the standard databases have not annotated in real biological processes, more than 1000 of the near 4000 genes encoded by the organism. This is symptomatic of the problem of neglected diseases of the poor.

OSDD is taking up the challenge of annotating all possible genes in Mtb and hopes that your Institution would join this massive effort.

For students this would be their summer project, the successful completion of which would fetch them a certificate from the Council of Scientific and Industrial Research (CSIR). All the projects are managed by experts in the field. For the faculty coordinators in each of the participating centers, it is an opportunity to interact with leading scientists working in this field.

The best coordinators, student contributors and the best college centers would receive awards.

The project is scheduled between December ‘09 and March ’10. The best students and faculty would be invited for an international conference on TB in April ’10.