A one day “Technical Consultation on Innovative Models for New Antibiotics’ Development and Preservation” was held at WHO headquarters on 13 May 2014. The meeting brought together leading experts to present and discuss innovative models fostering discovery and development of new antibiotics as part of the tool-kit to address challenges related to antimicrobial resistance.
Objectives of the consultation
- To be informed by the state-of-the-art thinking and proposed models for financing, developing and preserving new antibiotics
- To have critical review of these models by the leading experts
- To present WHO current thinking on R&D and preservation of new antibiotics
- To enrich and improve the WHO proposed model through discussions with leading exerts