Ranked considerations for initiating and continuing a neglected tropical disease (NTD) project.

Potential market value in “developing world or emerging markets” was the top-ranked reason for initiating and continuing an NTD project. Responses for the importance of the six individual, commonly referenced factors were weighted on a scale of 0 to 3 (“not considered” = 0; “minor consideration” = 1; “strong consideration” = 2; “major consideration” = 3), and comparative rankings were created based on cumulative scores for each factor. Rankings are also broken down into “large” companies (>500 FTEs) and “small” companies (