UK DHSC plans £39 million funding for antimicrobial resistance

The UK Department of Health and Social Care (DHSC) proposes £39 million ($48.5 million) of funding for antimicrobial resistance (AMR) research through the Global AMR Innovation Fund (GAMRIF).

Of this new funding package, up to £24 million over four years has been awarded to bolster the UK’s partnership with CARB-X – a global AMR research initiative – to support the continued early development of invaluable new antibiotics, vaccines, rapid diagnostics and other products to combat life threatening drug-resistant infections and prevent death and disease across the world.

The UK has already given £20 million of its ringfenced Official Development Assistance (ODA) budget to the initiative which, together with other funders, has resulted in CARB-X in turn investing nearly £40 million into the UK’s world-leading science and innovation industry.