Antibiotics - The Perfect Storm

We need new antibiotics to fight infections caused by resistant bacteria. But the marketplace, the structure of the pharmaceutical industry, regulatory agencies, and difficult science are conspiring to deny us the products we need. This blog will present perspectives and developments in the fight for new antibiotics.

Wednesday, July 1, 2020

FDA Analysis of Antibiotic Development - with Hubris!

The US FDA just published an analysis of antibiotic development looking back over the last 40 years. The paper was accompanied by an e...

Monday, June 15, 2020

Reach Out - Leave the Echo Chamber

Last week, a special issue of the American Chemical Society Infectious Diseases journal focusing on antibiotics was published . This is...

Monday, June 1, 2020

Now Will Europe Pull it Together?

Could Europe’s recent moves to provide bailout monies Europe-wide have implications for incentives for antibiotic R&D? A few months...

Tuesday, May 26, 2020

Back to the Future

I want to return to my favorite topic, antibiotics, viewed through the lens of the covid-19 pandemic. Of course, as is probably true f...

Tuesday, May 12, 2020

The Keystone Cops vs. Coronavirus

It sounds like the US Department of Health and Human Services has become completely dysfunctional. The Secretary, Dr. Azar (ex-lobbyist ...

Sunday, May 3, 2020

What Have We Learned?

Those who cannot remember the past are condemned to repeat it. (George Santayana). Never let a good crisis go to waste. (Churchill?, Eman...

Thursday, April 23, 2020

To BARDA with Love

Yesterday we were confronted with the news that Rick Bright, the director, Biomedical Advanced Research Authority (BARDA) and Deputy A...

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