'Slow Money As Bad As No Money' – SMEs Struggle For Superbug Funds
Executive Summary
The key to getting funding for small biotechs which focus on tackling antimicrobial resistance is to get private investors interested to top up 'push' incentives from the likes of CARB-X, the AMR Centre's Peter Jackson tells Scrip.
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