Open Source Pharma Foundation

The Open Source Pharma Foundation is a global non-profit organization with offices in Bangalore and Paris. We seek to discover new drugs, and a new way to discover drugs. Our aim is to develop affordable new therapies in areas of great health need, by using open source principles derived from the software industry. We leverage exponential advances... in computing power and collaborative technologies; alternative approaches to intellectual property; and the vast reach of the generics industry. In brief, open source pharma is: 1) crowdsourced and computer-driven drug discovery; 2) IT-enabled clinical trials with open data and crowdsourcing; and 3) generics manufacture Through nurturing the open source pharma global movement, building platforms for international scientific collaboration, convening global conferences, and conducting open source-enabled pharmaceutical research, we are working towards an alternative, end-to-end pharmaceutical system.Read More