$350M to Combat Antibiotic Resistance

in Research
July 28th, 2016

As part of a sweeping effort to solve the critical problem of antibiotic resistance, the US Department of Health & Human Services announces that it has selected the Boston University School of Law (LAW)—and Kevin Outterson, a BU professor of law—to lead a novel $350 million trans-Atlantic public-private partnership to spur the preclinical development of new antibiotics and antimicrobial rapid diagnostics and vaccines.