Thanks Dr. Perryman.

That is a very good website. I especially appreciate the way that you emphasize that interesting compounds will be publicized as they are discovered. This will reduce the queries that I have to answer in which someone suspiciously asks if we are shilling for some corporation.

Best wishes,
Lawrence

Thank you for the informative web site Dr. Perryman.

Thankyou Dr. Perryman for this (yet another) excellent website.

I've bookmarked it and will return to it on a pretty regular basis - after all, it's always nice to know what you're crunching and as to how, in general, the project is doing.

Well done

Thank you so much. You guys rock! :-)

Dear Lawrence,

You're welcome. I'm glad that you appreciate the new site. It's the first one that I've built from scratch.

I hope the GO FAM site does reduce those time-wasting queries you mentioned. Since the entire global market for anti-malaria drugs is estimated to be a few hundred million dollars/year, and since it generally costs half a billion to four billion dollars to develop and test a new drug, the corporations generally aren't interested in malaria research. There's no real profit incentive for malaria research, which is why most pharmaceutical companies neglect it entirely. Since the pharma. industry neglects this disease, academic researchers and the public need to try to pick up the slack.

There are a couple pharma. companies that do assist malaria research, as part of public-private partnerships like MMV (the Medicines for Malaria Venture), but it is more of a charitable effort than a profit-driven collaboration.

Thank you for your interest and your support,
Dr. Alex L. Perryman