UK Offers Fresh Funding For New Drugs & Vaccines Against AMR
Executive Summary
New funding from the UK’s antimicrobial resistance innovation fund is to be welcomed, but the UK pharmaceutical industry body, the ABPI, has cautioned that “multiple global solutions” bringing together governments, health care systems and the industry are needed if research efforts are to result in effective new antibiotics.
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