Malaria Drug Accelerator (MalDA)

The Malaria Drug Accelerator (MalDA) is a collaboration of 15 scientific laboratories funded by the Bill and Melinda Gates foundation to advance the development of new antimalarial drugs.

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Who are we?

The MALDA Consortium is an innovative target-guided discovery platform linking phenotypic hits to function for malaria. MALDA offers a new research paradigm that compliments the existing ways malaria drugs are discovered: A virtual pharmaceutical company.

How do we work together?

The MALDA Consortium is a collaboration between fifteen international groups, funded by BMGF.

MalDA Members

State-of-the-art
Plasmodium-adapted
technology platforms






In vitro selections
    State-of-Art Bioinformatics
    chemoinformatics / SAR / cryoEM
Conditional knockdown studies
     Essentiality assays
CRISPR-Cas9 reverse engineering
     Bar coded cell lines
     Overexpression lines
Metabolomics/Lipidomics/RNA-seq
     Macromolecule biosynthesis inhibitor assays
In vivo resistance evaluation

In vitro selections

  1. Clone by limiting dilution
  2. Select in triplicate
  3. Clone again
  4. Whole Genome Sequencing
  5. Compare genomes

External data
ChEMBL deposition data
Sequencing deposition data
Protocols

MalDA Publications

  1. Rawat, M, Boonyalai, N, Smidt, C, Luth, MR, Chen, D, Plater, A et al.. Mechanistic Insights into Dual-Active Liver and Blood-Stage Antiplasmodials. bioRxiv. 2025; :. doi: 10.1101/2025.08.06.666330. PubMed PMID:40799604 PubMed Central PMC12340835.
  2. Wicht, KJ, Woodland, JG, Garnie, LF, Langeveld, H, Taylor, D, Godoy, LC et al.. The Human Chk1 Inhibitor CHIR-124 Shows Multistage Activity Against Plasmodium falciparum via Dual Inhibition of PfArk1 and Hemozoin Formation. bioRxiv. 2025; :. doi: 10.1101/2025.07.17.664511. PubMed PMID:40791395 PubMed Central PMC12338603.
  3. Nardella, F, Jiang, T, Wang, L, Bohmer, MJ, Chakraborty, S, Okombo, J et al.. Plasmodiumfalciparum protein kinase 6 and hemozoin formation are inhibited by a type II human kinase inhibitor exhibiting antimalarial activity. Cell Chem Biol. 2025;32 (7):926-941.e23. doi: 10.1016/j.chembiol.2025.06.003. PubMed PMID:40628257 .
  4. Probst, AS, Paton, DG, Appetecchia, F, Bopp, S, Adams, KL, Rinvee, TA et al.. In vivo screen of Plasmodium targets for mosquito-based malaria control. Nature. 2025;643 (8072):785-793. doi: 10.1038/s41586-025-09039-2. PubMed PMID:40399670 PubMed Central PMC12267055.
  5. Godinez-Macias, KP, Chen, D, Wallis, JL, Siegel, MG, Adam, A, Bopp, S et al.. Revisiting the Plasmodium falciparum druggable genome using predicted structures and data mining. NPJ Drug Discov. 2025;2 (1):3. doi: 10.1038/s44386-025-00006-5. PubMed PMID:40066064 PubMed Central PMC11892419.
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MalDA selections

  • 200+ compounds under investigation
  • 400+ resistant clones generated for 58 compounds, and whole genome sequenced
  • 1300+ single nucleotide variants, 700+ indels, and 160+ copy number variants observed
  • At least 23 potential drug targets and 14 potential resistance genes identified or re-discovered using this method

Targets

  • PFK9
  • RFC4
  • ARK1
  • ATP4
  • KRS
  • cyto-IRS
  • FTB
  • PIP5K
  • ACS11
  • APP
  • DHFR-TS
  • PI4K
  • ATPase2
  • FP2A
  • NCR1
  • cPheRS
  • DHODH
  • RRB1
  • DPAP1
  • PRS

Resistance Genes

  • MFR3
  • ABCI3
  • CARL
  • MDR1
  • AAT1
  • CRT
  • PARE
  • YHM2
  • NEK1
  • MRP2
  • TKL3
  • CAF16
  • SulP
  • PF3D7_0909700

Compounds under consideration

  • 2,7-dibromo
    Cryptolepine hydrochloride (analog)
  • ACT-451840
  • Altiratinib
  • Anacetrapib
  • artemether
  • Atovaquone
  • AZ412
  • BI-1230
  • BI-1388
  • BI-2536
  • BRD1095
  • BRD3444
  • Brefeldin A
  • CEP-37440
  • cladosporin
  • Clofazimine
  • Cryptolepine hydrochloride
  • DDD01025389
  • DDD01057375
  • DDD01061024
  • DDD01250400
  • DDD01254473
  • DDD01298810
  • Decoquinate
  • Desoxyepothilone B
  • DSM265
  • ELQ300
  • GNF-Pf-1618
  • GNF-Pf-2740
  • GNF-Pf-2775
  • GNF-Pf-3582
  • GNF-Pf-3600
  • GNF-Pf-3703
  • GNF-Pf-4216
  • GNF-Pf-4283
  • GNF-Pf-445
  • GNF-Pf-4492
  • GNF-Pf-4577
  • GNF-Pf-5129
  • GNF-pf-5310
  • GNF-Pf-5349
  • GNF-Pf-5458
  • GNF-Pf-5611
  • GNF-Pf-5648
  • GNF-pf-5660
  • GNF-Pf-5666
  • GNF-pf-5668
  • GNF-Pf-5675
  • GNF179
  • GNF452
  • GNF707
  • indolmycin
  • Ivermectin
  • KAE609
  • KAF156
  • KAI407
  • KDU691
  • Lomitapide
  • lopinavir
  • Mefloquine
  • milciclib maleate
  • MMV000248
  • MMV000442
  • MMV000478
  • MMV000570
  • MMV000787
  • MMV006169
  • MMV006172
  • MMV006357
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  • MMV1214532
  • MMV1223789
  • MMV1271410
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  • MMV1317269
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  • MMV1451822
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  • MMV1468363
  • MMV1490397
  • MMV1490405
  • MMV1490583
  • MMV1501496
  • MMV1528403
  • MMV1531441
  • MMV396736
  • MMV396797
  • MMV407834
  • MMV665785
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  • MMV673482
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  • MMV675939
  • MMV676380
  • MMV676881
  • Naphthoquine
  • Neu-1029
  • NEU-1931
  • NEU-4995
  • NITD678
  • OSM-S-106
  • Pentamidine isothionate
  • pepstatin butyl ester
  • Piperaquine
  • primaquine
  • Puromycin
  • Sapanisertib
  • SQ109
  • Suloctidil
  • TCMDC-124553
  • TCMDC-135051
  • TCMDC-135395
  • Tryptanthrin
  • Velpatasvir
  • Verapamil
  • ZSTK-474
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