Less than 1% of public and charitable funding from bodies in the UK was awarded to antibiotics research in the last five years. Researchers at the University of Birmingham found that of the ￡13.8 billion research funding available, only ￡95 million, or 0.7% of the total, was awarded to research on antibiotics. "The message that antibacterial (i.e., antibiotic) drug resistance has become a world health crisis has been brought to global attention by WHO, the European Union, the World Economic Forum and, most recently, the UK Chief Medical Officer," said Professor Laura Piddock. "As a world leader in biomedical research, UK research has an important part to play in tackling this crisis. However, our study clearly shows that the proportion of public and charitable funding for research into new antibiotics, understanding resistance mechanisms and ways of tackling resistance are inadequate for the size of the task."
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