How teenagers are disrupting drug discovery

When we first mentioned working with secondary school students to make new medicines in 2012, people thought we were crazy.

I was two years into my postdoc under Mat Todd at the University of Sydney, Australia, working as part of the Open Source Malaria (OSM) consortium. This is an international collaboration trying to find a new medicine for malaria as quickly and cheaply as possible by removing the secrecy usually associated with drug discovery. Experiments recorded in online electronic lab notebooks accessible to anyone, and meetings, project discussions and planning all conducted online.