Succeeded to produce AIDS treatment medicine that students had drastically raised 55 times as much as just 230 yen

Daraprim (generic name: pyrimethamine), a treatment for infectious diseases such as toxoplasmosis and malaria, is a prescription prescribed primarily for patients who have been infected with HIV and have low immunity, and will receive 1 tablet of 13.5 dollars About 1600 yen at that time rate) to 1 tablet 750 dollars (about 90,000 yen)Price increaseWhat was done was a problem in America. This Daraprim has been successfully manufactured by Australian high school students for only 2 dollars (about 230 yen).

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The drug called Daraprim will be licensed by Turing Pharmaceuticals, a pharmaceutical company that acquired Daraprim's rights from another company in 2015 from a single tablet of 13.5 dollars (about 1600 yen at that time) to about 750 dollars (about 90,000 yen) about 55 times It may have been raised. Martin Schulleri, the young man of the same pharmaceutical company, received great criticism from around the world regarding the explosion of Daraprim's price and among the celebrities who criticized himHillary ClintonMr. orDonald TrumpMr. was included.

Mr. Schrelly withdrew the price increase of Daraprim because it received great social criticism, but he was arrested on December 17, 2015 for securities fraud.

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The Daraprim with this background has been created as a student research team belonging to Year 11 of Sydney Grammar School for just 2 dollars. Year 11 is a senior high school student in Japan, the core members of the research team are 17 to 18 years old. The research team led by Professor Alice William of the University of Sydney said that he made Daraprim by synthesizing the material "4-chlorophenylacetonitrile" that can be purchased on the Internet.

The research team could not use the patented technology of Turing Pharmaceuticals but succeeded in creating a special way to synthesize 4-chlorophenylacetonitrile and making 3.7 grams of Daraprim from 17 grams of 4-chlorophenylacetonitrile did.


Professor William said, "Students made 3.7 grams of Daraprim would be worth $ 110,000 ($ 12.5 million) in the US when raised by Turing Pharmaceuticals but this time it was used to make Daraprim Because the method is different from the patenting method of Turing Pharmaceuticals it is difficult to put it on the market as a medicine.If you need to do a comparison test with Daraprim of Turing Pharmaceuticals to market it, if Turing Pharmaceuticals does not allow you clinical I have to do the exam from the 1st. "