With around 2.2 million cases of tuberculosis in India out of 9.6 million global cases and the country accounting for 6% of malaria cases in the world India is burdened with incidence of tuberculosis and malaria. However there are possibilities of discovering potential new therapies to tackle tuberculosis and malaria thanks to HitGen Ltd a China based life science company that has recently received a grant from Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation for coming up with its DNA encoded library technology based anti-tuberculosis and anti-malaria therapies. This technology platform dealing with design synthesis and interrogation of multi-billion component libraries of
