The motto of OSDD is “affordable health care for all”.

OSDD applies the open source philosophy, ‘many eyeballs makes the bug shallow’ to the science of drug discovery. The principles of open innovation through open collaboration and sharing underlies OSDD approaches.

OSDD understands that the reason for failure to get adequate research investments to the tropical infectious diseases is the absence of a market which ensures return on investment for the industry. These diseases mostly affect the poor. Affordability and Accessibility of drugs to the affected population is at the core of OSDD philosophy.

OSDD aims to bring the best minds to drug discovery through open innovation and best partners with experience of drug development through product development partnerships. OSDD is an open innovation platform, where all the projects and the research results are reported on the web based platform http//sysborg2.osdd.net.  The drug development for tropical diseases carried out in those countries with diseases situs, in collaboration with the best minds of the world will make the research and development less expensive, compared to the traditional approaches followed in the industry........ Read More