Scientists have created a synthetic molecule that appears capable of attacking a broad range of bacteria that have become dangerously resistant to workhorse medicines.
An estimated 2.8 million people in the U.S. contract infections each year from bacteria resistant to antibiotics, according to the U.S. Centers for Disease Control. More than 35,000 of them die. Despite the mounting toll — and the prospect of an eventual surge in superbug fatalities — the development of new antibiotics has failed to keep pace with the threat.
, which gave Myers the $1.2-million grant. Of potential drugs that make it to the stage of development that cresomycin has reached, Alm estimated that one in every 30 or 40 ultimately has enough positive data to win approval from the U.S. Food and Drug Administration. is a global nonprofit dedicated to speeding up development of new antibiotics. It has made nearly 100 grants so far to companies or academic institutions working to treat, prevent or diagnose antibiotic-resistant infections. Headquartered at Boston University, the accelerator is funded by the governments of the U.S., the United Kingdom, Canada and Germany, as well as the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation and the Novo Nordisk Foundation.
are an attempt to keep the pipeline from drying up. “If your house is burning, you don't have time to buy a fire truck, hire firemen and train them to come and put your fire out. You need them ready to go,' Alm said. 'That’s the same with antibiotics. If you go into hospital and you get a superbug, you need an antibiotic that is there on the shelf.”
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