RETHINK Antibiotics

Antibiotics play a pivotal role in medicine and public health. Since the discovery of penicillin, antibiotic agents have transformed medicine and saved millions of lives worldwide. The efficacy of the existing antibiotics therapies is threatened by the emergence of antibiotic resistance, with hundreds of thousands fatalities per year. Only few new antibiotics have been proven effective against multi-resistant bacteria, leading to an alarming situation where some infections have no cure. We are in urgent need of innovative antibiotic treatments. This symposium brings together leading experts from ETH Zurich and other institutions to present advances in the field of antibiotics.