Epidemiology First: MedImmune Moving Ahead With Preventive Antibodies, But Needs More HAP Data
This article was originally published in Pharmaceutical Approvals Monthly
Executive Summary
The biotech’s senior VP for infectious disease and vaccine R&D says prevention must be a part of fighting antimicrobial resistance, but moving the new approach into advanced trials first requires getting a handle on the incidence of hospital-acquired pneumonia in intensive care patients.
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