Antibiotic Incentives: Pfizer’s Read Touts Exclusivity Voucher
Executive Summary
Providing a transferable period of patent-life extension in exchange for US FDA approval of a new antibiotic would incentivize ‘the whole ecosystem’ to find new treatments for emerging diseases, CEO Ian Read says.
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