Biden administration doles out $100M to research drug-resistant infections

The Biden ad­min­is­tra­tion is pump­ing $100 mil­lion in­to a re­search project fo­cused on com­bat­ing the threat of drug-re­sis­tant bac­te­ria, the Ad­vanced Re­search Projects Agency for Health (ARPA-H) an­nounced Wednes­day.

ARPA-H, which the Biden ad­min­is­tra­tion es­tab­lished last year, will spear­head the ini­tia­tive through its Open Broad Agency An­nounce­ment for fund­ing pro­pos­als. The project, dubbed De­feat­ing An­tibi­ot­ic Re­sis­tance through Trans­for­ma­tive So­lu­tions, or DARTS, sets out to de­vel­op a set of di­ag­nos­tic and ex­per­i­men­tal plat­forms to glean in­for­ma­tion on how an­tibi­ot­ic re­sis­tance starts and how to de­vel­op new an­tibi­otics.

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