Open Source Artificial Intelligence for
Ersilia is a tech nonprofit organisation. We equip universities, hospitals, and laboratories in low-resourced countries with data science tools for infectious and neglected disease research.
We are on a mission to make science accessible to all
Data science opens an affordable path to scientific discoveries. All countries must benefit from it.
The research ecosystem is imbalanced
5%
Research output
Low income countries produce less than 5% of the world's scientific publications.
60%
Infectious diseases
Six out of the top 10 causes of death in these countries are due to infections.
10%
Antimicrobial drugs
However, only 10% of the drugs in development target infectious diseases (WHO, 2021).