Gresham College Lectures
Gresham College has been providing free public lectures since 1597, making us London's oldest higher education institution. This podcast offers our recorded lectures that are free to access from the Gresham College website, or our YouTube channel.
Gresham College Lectures
Costing the arms race: drugs, super-bugs and the appliance of science
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Does the spread of multiply-resistant microbes signal the end of the antibiotic era? Were antibiotics a unique, chance discovery? Will investment in RandD produce new drugs to win the evolutionary arms race, or is drug science just too difficult? Does Pharma have the right incentives to make...