W.H.O. Warns That Pipeline for New Antibiotics Is Running Dry

Andrew Jacobs

January 17, 2020

W.H.O. Warns That Pipeline for New Antibiotics Is Running Dry

With the pipeline for new antibiotics slowing to a trickle and bankruptcies driving pharmaceutical companies from the field, the World Health Organization on Friday issued a fresh warning about the global threat of drug resistant infections.

Some 700,000 people die each year because medicines that once cured their conditions are no long effective. Yet the vast majority of the 60 new antimicrobial products in development worldwide are variations on existing therapies, and only a handful target the most dangerous drug-resistant infections, the agency said in a report.

Name
First Last
Email
Zipcode
Organization
Title
Phone
This field is for validation purposes and should be left unchanged.

The New York Times

W.H.O. Warns That Pipeline for New Antibiotics Is Running Dry

Andrew Jacobs

January 17, 2020

W.H.O. Warns That Pipeline for New Antibiotics Is Running Dry

More

Wall Street Journal

The World Needs New Antibiotics. The Problem Is, No One Can Make Them Profitably.

Pharmaceutical Technology

Fighting AMR with a value and subscription model

Fierce Biotech

Scientists use AI to find new antibiotics, but can they climb out of the ‘valley of death’ to the clinic?

PHARMAVOICE

‘The Last of Us’ might be fiction, but fungi are a looming threat

Sign up for the latest on fighting AMR