Antibiotics are fundamental to modern medicine, essential for treating everything from routine skin infections to strep throat, and for protecting vulnerable patients receiving chemotherapy or being treated in intensive care units.
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Report
A Scientific Roadmap for Antibiotics
A sustained and robust pipeline of new antibacterial drugs and therapies is critical to preserve public health
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Report
Antibiotic Use in Outpatient Settings
Health experts create national targets to reduce unnecessary antibiotic prescriptions
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Issue Brief
Animal Antibiotic Use Requires Drug Label Refinements
Analysis shows more than 1 in 3 labels will not fully meet judicious use standards after implementation of FDA policy
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Issue Brief
New data needed to improve prescribing, combat threat of antibiotic resistance
Our Work
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Information-Sharing Platform to Fill Knowledge Gaps Impeding Antibiotic Innovation
The Shared Platform for Antibiotic Research and Knowledge is a groundbreaking and dynamic information-sharing platform. It will bring together curated antibiotic discovery data and cutting-edge analytics to help scientists tackle the scientific barriers blocking antibiotics discovery. While the global threat of antibiotic resistance continues to rise, nearly every antibiotic in use today is based... Read More
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Reactions to Pew’s Information-Sharing Platform to Spur Antibiotic Discovery
The Pew Charitable Trusts announced Aug. 7 that it will create a digital platform allowing researchers to share data, ideas, and insights to spur the discovery of innovative new antibiotics needed in the battle against the growing global threat of drug-resistant bacteria. The new Shared Platform for Antibiotic Research and Knowledge (SPARK), a dynamic, cloud-based resource, will integrate... Read More
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Pew to Launch Information-Sharing Platform to Spur Antibiotic Discovery
WASHINGTON—The Pew Charitable Trusts announced today that it will create a digital platform allowing researchers to share data, ideas, and insights to spur the discovery of innovative new antibiotics needed in the battle against the growing global threat of drug-resistant bacteria, or superbugs. Read More
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