AMR Roundtable Part 2: The Need For Patient Perspectives To Reinforce Urgency Of Antimicrobial Drug Development
Executive Summary
Scrip spoke with the CEOs of Zavante and Amplyx as well as a BARDA official during a roundtable discussion at BIO about the challenges of antimicrobial drug development. This second part of the roundtable centers on the lack of patient advocates in the area of antimicrobial-resistant infections.
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