Dear Dr. Macdonald,

Thanks for expressing interest in the TDI initiative. Certainly Leprosy fits on the type of diseases that would best benefit from an Open Source Biology initiative like TDI. 

TDI is now in its initial steps and we hope that will evolve soon into something that contains more than just a web site. As we speak, some contributors are actually re-bumping the web site to add some more functionality to it so that scientists can actually start using some bioinformatics resources to do research. The intend of TDI is to compile individual contributions towards developing drugs for neglected diseases (and of course Leprosy could be one of those). Thus, TDI is a framework that allows researchers over the world (as yourself) to share ideas and results towards the goal I mention before. I really encourage you to join the TDI mailing list (http://salilab.org/mailman/listinfo/tdi-discuss) so that you are up-to-date on the status of the initiative and maybe, in a near future,  start a front on Leprosy within TDI. 

Sincerely,
Marc

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Marc A. Marti-Renom, Adj. Assistant  Professor

Departments of Biopharmaceutical Sciences  and Pharmaceutical Chemistry and 

California Institute for Quantitative Biomedical Research

Mission Bay QB3. University of California, San Francisco

San Francisco, CA  94143-2552 (94158 for courier delivery)

Tel 1 (415) 514-4232; Fax 1  (415) 514-4231

Email marcius@salilab.org; Web http://salilab.org/~marcius 

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On Jun 27, 2005, at 11:04 PM, Andrej Sali wrote:



Begin forwarded message:


From: "Murdo Macdonald" <MurdoM@TLMNepal.org>
Date: June 27, 2005 10:49:39 PM PDT
To: <tdi@tropicaldisease.org>
Subject: Leprosy in Nepal


Dear Sir:
Greetings from Kathmandu, Nepal
I am writing to you as head of the Mycobacterial Research Lab, a small but active research lab which is part of Anandaban Leprosy Hospital
I was very interested to come across your organisation, and wondered whether you have any interest in leprosy? I had a look at your website, but wasn't able to see any relevant information
Thank you for your kind attention to this matter; I will look forward to hearing from you in due course

Yours sincerely

Dr. Murdo Macdonald,
Head, Mycobacterial Research Laboratory,
Ananadaban Leprosy Hospital,
PO Box 151
Kathmandu
Nepal
Tel: 009771- 4290545
Fax: 009771- 4290538
E-mail: MurdoM@TLMNepal.org



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California Institute for Quantitative Biomedical Research
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