Who's Working On New Antibiotics? Nobody Big.
"Superbugs" Are Lurking to Eat Our Tender Flesh.. All Antibiotics Are Becoming Impotent... We Desperately Need New Antibiotics.... I'm coming to getcha. So what Big Pharma company has the next super antibiotic in the pipeline to save us from the coming germopocalypse? Basically NONE The "Plutocrat's Paper" Forbes Magazine put it this way: Big Pharma has basically given up on antibiotics . It’s not that the risks are too high, it is that the rewards are too low . New antibiotics are being introduced. But their sales are a tiny fraction of sales in other drug classes. A Headline Last Week Novartis joins the Big Pharma exodus out of antibiotics, dumping research Big Pharma started bailing on antibiotics research years ago, discouraged by the notable absence of profits . That left R&D to a small group of biotechs looking to come up with new approaches that could be used as drug-resis