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CQ coadministered with PQ — Competitive Intelligence Brief
phase 3
Antimalarial combination
Plasmodium heme detoxification pathway; hypnozoite elimination
Infectious Disease
Small molecule
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Target snapshot
CQ coadministered with PQ (CQ coadministered with PQ) — Fundação de Medicina Tropical Dr. Heitor Vieira Dourado. CQ (chloroquine) and PQ (primaquine) work together as antimalarial agents that disrupt parasite metabolism and eliminate both blood and tissue stages of Plasmodium infection.
Comparator set (6 drugs)
| Drug | Generic | Sponsor | Phase | Class | Target | Approval / PDUFA |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| CQ coadministered with PQ TARGET | CQ coadministered with PQ | Fundação de Medicina Tropical Dr. Heitor Vieira Dourado | phase 3 | Antimalarial combination | Plasmodium heme detoxification pathway; hypnozoite elimination | |
| Tafenoquine plus DHA-Piperaquine | Tafenoquine plus DHA-Piperaquine | Menzies School of Health Research | marketed | Antimalarial combination | Plasmodium hypnozoites (tafenoquine); Plasmodium blood-stage parasites (DHA-piperaquine) | |
| Tafenoquine plus Artesunate-pyronaridine | Tafenoquine plus Artesunate-pyronaridine | Menzies School of Health Research | marketed | Antimalarial combination | Plasmodium falciparum and Plasmodium vivax (parasite species); mechanism involves multiple targets including mitochondrial function and heme detoxification | |
| artesunate-lapdap | artesunate-lapdap | London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine | marketed | Antimalarial combination | Plasmodium falciparum dihydrofolate reductase (lapdap component); artemisinin mechanism not fully elucidated but involves heme interaction | |
| Sulfadoxine-pyrimethamine plus artesunate | Sulfadoxine-pyrimethamine plus artesunate | London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine | marketed | Antimalarial combination | Dihydrofolate reductase, dihydropteroate synthase (sulfadoxine-pyrimethamine); mitochondrial electron transport (artesunate) | |
| Pyronaridine artesunate | Pyronaridine artesunate | Medicines for Malaria Venture | marketed | Antimalarial combination | Plasmodium falciparum DNA; heme detoxification pathway | |
| artesunate-amodiaquine (AS-AQ) | artesunate-amodiaquine (AS-AQ) | Yale University | marketed | Artemisinin derivative + aminoquinoline antimalarial combination | Plasmodium falciparum heme iron (Fe2+), parasite DNA, heme polymerase |
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Sponsor landscape (Antimalarial combination class)
- Centers for Disease Control and Prevention · 4 drugs in this class
- Armed Forces Research Institute of Medical Sciences, Thailand · 4 drugs in this class
- London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine · 3 drugs in this class
- Sanofi · 2 drugs in this class
- Menzies School of Health Research · 2 drugs in this class
- Fundação de Medicina Tropical Dr. Heitor Vieira Dourado · 1 drug in this class
- Epicentre · 1 drug in this class
- Jhpiego · 1 drug in this class
- Charite University, Berlin, Germany · 1 drug in this class
- Ifakara Health Institute · 1 drug in this class
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Drug Landscape (2026). CQ coadministered with PQ — Competitive Intelligence Brief. https://druglandscape.com/ci/cq-coadministered-with-pq. Accessed 2026-05-16.
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