Anti-Infective R&D Ecosystem Getting Healthier, But Trials Remain
Executive Summary
FDA and other government agencies have successfully nurtured a healthy ecosystem to rebuild the antibiotics pipeline, and a new crop of antibiotics has now reached the pivotal stage of clinical trials. But the sponsors are largely small companies: can they survive in the highly constrained commercial market for serious infections?
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