SAN FRANCISCO--(BUSINESS WIRE)--The Institute for OneWorld Health (iOWH), a US-based non-profit pharmaceutical company, is marking Malaria Awareness Day by recognizing its scientific collaborators, UC Berkeley and Professor Jay Keasling, and Amyris Biotechnologies, for the significant progress made utilizing synthetic biology to develop microbially derived artemisinin. Artemisinin is a costly plant extract used in artemisinin-based combination therapies (ACTs) for malaria.
