No existing medicine can defeat dengue. It’s one of the top ten threats to global public health, and as the effects of global warming begin to bite, the stage is set for its spread outward from the tropics. This looks like a job for medicine makers without borders, doesn’t it? Here to walk us through DNDi’s opening gambit against this neglected, cl…

In our penultimate episode we are looking at the Leishmaniasis East Africa Platform, also known as LEAP. Here to talk me through this interconnected, collaborative network are two LEAP members who first met as colleagues and later became firm friends; Ahmed Musa of Khartoum University and Simon Bolo of DNDi Africa. This was a fascinating discussion…

In episode four, as we continue our focus on the digital, we look to DNDi’s use of the next-gen digital projects in open science. This one’s a bit of a two-parter. In our first interview we’ll be talking to Pushmeet Kohli of a very high profile DNDi partner: Google’s DeepMind. Then I’ll be talking to Alpha Lee of the University of Cambridge about h…

As the series nears its midway point, we are going open source. First we’ll talk to Ben Perry and Andrea Vernall about DNDi’s Open Synthesis Network for drug discovery, and then we’ll venture into the academy to speak with one of the students contributing to the Network. Information wants to be free, man, so hit play and learn a thing or two! Ben P…

In the second episode of this six-part series, we are looking at the DNDi’s work on mycetoma, an infection that slowly inflicts disfigurement and disability on patients in rural, often isolated and underserved regions in the global south. Here to talk us through the disease and DNDi’s work against it are Wendy van de Sande, and Ahmed Fahal. Wendy v…

All things have their beginning, and no change arrives devoid of a cause. Accordingly, we’re kicking off this mini-series with a very special guest: DNDi’s founder and fearless leader, Bernard Pécoul. Here he discusses the organization’s origins, mission, and how it aims to challenge and change the status quo. Bernard Pécoul is the Executive Direct…

The Medicine Maker presents a 6 episode series on the inspiring efforts of the Drugs for Neglected Diseases initiative. Tune in and learn just what it takes to develop medicines for some of the world’s most neglected patient populations.By Texere Publishing

Eva Wojcik is Chair of the Department of Pathology and Helen M. and Raymond M. Galvin Professor of Pathology at Loyola University Stritch School of Medicine, Maywood, Illinois, USA. Dana Razzano is a current GI/Liver Pathology Fellow at Stanford University, California, USA, and completed a Cytopathology fellowship at Yale University, Connecticut, U…

Ann Moyer is Associate Professor of Laboratory Medicine and Pathology at Mayo Clinic, Rochester, Minnesota, USA. Manuel Salto-Tellez is Professor of Molecular Pathology at Queen’s University Belfast, Northern Ireland, and Professor of Integrated Pathology at the Institute of Cancer Research in London, UK.…

Akanksha Gupta is a hematopathologist with a hematopathology fellowship at Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center, New York, New York, USA. Rashmi Kanagal-Shamanna is Associate Professor of Hematopathology and Director of the Microarray Facility at the University of Texas MD Anderson Cancer Center, Houston, Texas, USA.…

Leanne O’Connor is a Biomedical Scientist in Clinical Biochemistry at Western Health and Social Care Trust, Enniskillen, UK. Gareth McKeeman is Consultant Clinical Scientist at Belfast Health and Social Care Trust, Belfast, UK.By Leanne O’Connor, Gareth McKeeman, Michael Schubert

Oscar Lopez-Nuñez is Assistant Professor at Cincinnati Children's Hospital Medical Center, Ohio, USA. Miguel Reyes-Mugica is Chief of the Division of Pediatric Pathology at the Children's Hospital of Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, USA.By Oscar Lopez-Nuñez, Miguel Reyes-Mugica, Olivia Gaskill

Mei Lin Bissonnette is Clinical Associate Professor at the University of British Columbia and Director of the BC Provincial Renal Pathology Laboratory, St. Paul’s Hospital, Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada. Hayley Pincott is Associate Practitioner in the Oral Pathology and Microbiology department at Cardiff and Vale University Health Board, Card…

Rajendra Singh is Professor of Dermatology and Pathology, Director of Dermatopathology, and Associate Chair of Digital Pathology at Northwell Health, New York, USA. He is also the Founder of PathPresenter Corporation. He can be found on Twitter at @mydermpath and @pathpresenter. Melanie Bois is Consultant in the Division of Anatomic Pathology and A…

Nicola Parry is Head of Pathology at the University of Surrey’s School of Veterinary Medicine, Surrey, UK. Chiara Palmieri is Associate Professor in Veterinary Pathology at The University of Queensland, Queensland, Australia.By Nicola Parry, Chiara Palmieri, Olivia Gaskill

Céline Gounder is Clinical Assistant Professor of Medicine at New York University School of Medicine and Attending Physician at Bellevue Hospital Center, New York, USA. She hosts the podcasts “American Diagnosis” and “Epidemic” and is CEO and Founder of Just Human Productions. She can be found on Twitter at @celinegounder. Michael Shurin is Directo…

Marianne Hamel is a Forensic Pathologist at Jersey Shore Forensics, New Jersey, USA. Nicole Jackson is Associate Medical Examiner and Physician at King County Medical Examiner’s Office, Seattle, Washington, USA.By Marianne Hamel, Nicole Jackson, Michael Schubert

Michael Desimone is an ASCP-certified pathologists’ assistant at Yale University School of Medicine, New Haven, Connecticut, and at Northwell Health, New York, USA. He can be found on Twitter at @diseasehunter. Dennis Strenk is a pathologists’ assistant at Wisconsin Diagnostic Laboratories, Milwaukee, Wisconsin, USA. He hosts the podcast “People of…

Bobbi Pritt is Professor of Pathology and Director of the Clinical Parasitology Laboratory in Mayo Clinic’s Department of Laboratory Medicine and Pathology, Rochester, Minnesota, USA. Elaine Cloutman-Green is Consultant Clinical Scientist in Infection Prevention and Control/Lead Healthcare Scientist at Great Ormond Street Hospital NHS Foundation Tr…

Do you know your way around the lab – and what your colleagues do day in and day out? Join us on The Pathology Grand Tour to hear about the work of pathologists and laboratory medicine professionals in a wide range of disciplines – and how their work interacts with yours!By Michael Schubert, Olivia Gaskill