GARDP partners with Japanese pharmaceutical in pursuit of new antibiotics

The Global Antibiotic Research and Development Partnership (GARDP) has today announced an agreement with Daiichi Sankyo for GARDP to access and screen the Daiichi Sankyo chemical library. The library will be tested by Institut Pasteur Korea with the goal of discovering novel antibacterial compounds. The agreement sees Daiichi Sankyo join Eisai and Takeda as part of an AMR Screening Consortium, which aims to accelerate GARDP efforts to identify compounds for development into treatments for drug-resistant infections.