Antimalarial Drug Candidates
A special issue of Pharmaceuticals (ISSN 1424-8247). This special issue belongs to the section "Medicinal Chemistry".
Deadline for manuscript submissions: 25 August 2025 | Viewed by 1832
Special Issue Editors
Interests: malaria; malaria clinical and epidemiological aspects; antimalarial drugs; vector control
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Special Issue Information
Dear Colleagues,
Despite extensive efforts to control and eliminate malaria, the disease continues to present a significant public health threat around the world. The emergence of Plasmodium resistance to current antimalarial medications, the absence of effective vaccines, and the limited availability of alternative chemotherapeutic options underscore the urgent need to identify and develop novel antimalarial drug candidates. This pressing issue requires immediate attention and has been a very attractive field for new research whose primary goal is the discovery of antimalarial drug candidates.
This Special Issue aims to offer a comprehensive overview of the development of antimalarial drug candidates for treating malaria in preclinical, translational, and clinical settings. We invite authors to submit original research or review articles that analyze the mechanism of action, efficacy, safety, and/or pharmacokinetics of new antimalarial drug candidates in different transmission settings.
Dr. Djane Baia-da-Silva
Dr. Anna Caroline Campos Aguiar
Guest Editors
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Keywords
- malaria
- antimalarial drug candidates
- efficacy
- safety
- pharmacokinetics
- clinical
- preclinical and translational
- resistance
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