Lawmakers reintroduce PASTEUR Act to incentivize antimicrobial development

As industry continues to create “push” mechanisms to fund antimicrobial development, lawmakers in the U.S. Senate House of Representatives have reintroduced legislation that proposes complementary “pull” incentives to provide more revenue certainty on the commercial side. 

This week, Sen. Michael Bennet (D-Colo.), Sen. Todd Young (R-Ind.), Rep. Mike Doyle (D-Pa.) and Rep. Drew Ferguson (R-Ga.) reintroduced the Pioneering Antimicrobial Subscriptions to End Upsurging Resistance (PASTEUR) Act, which proposes incentives of $750 million to $3 billion for new antimicrobial products, with the payments de-linked from sales...