Natural Product Inspired Antimalarial Drug Discovery
A special issue of Chemistry (ISSN 2624-8549). This special issue belongs to the section "Biological and Natural Products".
Deadline for manuscript submissions: closed (31 July 2022) | Viewed by 448
Special Issue Editor
Special Issue Information
Dear Colleagues,
Malaria represents the most deadly parasitic human disease, despite countless efforts to eradicate or control it. With increasing drug resistance, the absence of a clinically effective vaccine, and the spread of insecticide-resistant vectors, there is an urgent and continuous need for novel, effective, and safe drugs for the prevention and treatment of malaria infection. Natural product scaffolds underpin many effective antimalarial cures, including quinine and artemisinin. However, despite its already significant contribution to the control of the disease, there is a relative paucity in the number of new natural-product-derived antimalarials under development.
This Special Issue is intended to allow researchers to describe efforts toward discovering and developing new antimalarial drugs, especially natural products derived or inspired, to overcome rising drug resistance and combat malaria parasites.
Prof. Dr. Jane Xu Kelly
Guest Editor
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Keywords
- malaria
- plasmodium
- falciparum
- vivax
- antimalarials
- drug development
- drug discovery
- natural product
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