Table 2.

Recommendations and support measures for antibacterial drug discovery projects

•Better coordinated, targeted, and sustainable funding.

•National funding strategies to support antibiotic drug innovation should reflect more accurately the global medical need and societal benefit.

•Centralized and curated collection of education and training resources.

•Central virtual antibiotic discovery hub with open access to individual high-quality project mentorship, training on the job and drug discovery services.

•Collaborative applied research on general methodologies to support drug discovery, such as drug penetration into the gram-negative bacterial cell, predictive toxicological models, and evaluating the risk of emergence of resistance.