An ambitious pharmaceutical industry venture to tackle antibiotic resistance has hired its first chief executive officer and received $140 million in additional funding commitment.
The AMR Action Fund, which was organized with $1 billion in pledged funds from nearly two dozen drug makers, tapped Henry Skinner, a venture capitalist and the former head of Novartis Venture Funds, to pilot the project. The goal is to acquire or invest in small companies that can develop two to four novel antibiotics by 2030 and replenish the global supply chain with needed treatments.