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The intensive use and misuse of antibiotics has resulted in some level of antibiotic resistance in essentially all human bacterial pathogens. There is a growing concern that the loss of therapeutic options will present us with a post-antibiotic era where present and future medical advances are negated. Resistant bacteria dramatically reduce the possibilities of treating infections effectively, a ...

...ading European SME’s and academics to address this problem through the development of novel classes of antifungals and the identification of novel drug targets. The NOFUN consortium has identified potent novel broad spectrum antifungal molecules that are active against multi-resistant fungal pathogens and intends to qualify these as drug candidates. One of these assets is already at the lead ident ...