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Costing the arms race: drugs, super-bugs and the appliance of science

Speaker(s):   Professor Christopher Dye

Date/Time:  22/11/2007

Does the spread of multiply-resistant microbes signal the end of the antibiotic era? Were antibiotics a unique, chance discovery? Will investment in R&D produce new drugs to win the evolutionary arms race, or is drug science just too difficult? Does Pharma have the right incentives to make the drugs we need?

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