Antibiotic Pioneers Increasingly Looking to Emerging Markets For Partners

China Becoming A ‘Hub’ For Antibacterial Development And Commercialization

10 Jun 2021

• By Sten Stovall

Small- to medium-sized drug makers developing new products for resistant infections are increasingly partnering with players in emerging markets such as China because of the absence of workable risk/reward systems in rich countries, according to a report by The Access To Medicine Foundation.

Trend Reflects Lack Of Viable Risk / Reward Systems In Rich Countries • Source: Alamy

Caught between the urgent clinical need for their R&D candidates and the lack of financing and revenue, some small- and medium-sized companies involved in making novel antimicrobials are now exploring development and commercialization pathways in low- and middle-income countries, notably in China and India, new research shows.

A report by The Access To Medicine Foundation, an independent non-profit organisation based in the Netherlands, released on 10 June...

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