NIH Awards to Support Development of Treatment Alternatives to Antibiotics

Increasing resistance to antibiotics coupled with the slow pace of new antibiotic development threatens to erode the past 70 years of progress in fighting life-threatening bacterial infections. To help address the growing health threat of antibiotic resistance, NIAID has awarded approximately $5 million in funding for 24 research projects seeking to develop nontraditional therapeutics for bacterial infections. Find out more at: http://www.niaid.nih.gov/news/newsreleases/2016/Pages/AntibioticsAlternatives.aspx.