Every year April 14 is World Chagas Disease Day. In 2022, World Health Organization (WHO) seeks ways for finding and reporting every case to defeat Chagas disease. Collaborative efforts are needed to improve acute and chronic Chagas notification, epidemiological surveillance of cases and active transmission.

Chagas disease is known as "silent disease" because the disease can progress slowly and quietly in the body causing no symptoms or extremely mild symptoms but later leading to severe and even fatal cardiac and digestive alterations. But in many countries, detection rates are low (<10%, frequently <1%).

Institut Pasteur Korea strives to develop innovative therapeutics that can effectively treat patients with Chagas Disease. The researchers of IPK utilize the cutting-edge image-based screening platform and active international partnerships, including the collaboration with DNDi and Medina Foundation in Spain initiated in 2020, to test thousands of compounds and natural products and identify next-generation drug candidates.