US-UK partnership a 'watershed moment' in antimicrobial resistance fight

29 July 2016

One of the world’s largest public-private partnerships, encompassing some of the leading authorities from the USA and UK, has been created to focus on the preclinical discovery and development of new antimicrobial products.

The Combating Antibiotic Resistant Bacteria Biopharmaceutical Accelerator, or CARB-X, could provide hundreds of millions of dollars over five years to increase the number of antibiotics in the drug-development pipeline.

This global innovation project will be led by the Biomedical Advanced Research and Development Authority (BARDA), within the US Department of Health and Human Services’ Office of the Assistant Secretary for Preparedness and Response, along with the National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases (NIAID), and the UK’s Wellcome Trust and AMR Centre.

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