Researchers receive $9 million grant to fast track the discovery of new antibiotics

In Sep­tember 2014, Pres­i­dent Obama issued an exec­u­tive order for “Com­bating Antibiotic-Resistant Bac­teria.” Why the urgency? The Cen­ters for Dis­ease Con­trol and Pre­ven­tion, the order noted, “esti­mates that annu­ally at least 2 mil­lion ill­nesses and 23,000 deaths are caused by antibiotic-resistant bac­teria in the United States alone.”