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Durable antibiotics against pan-resistant Gram-negatives
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unsolved-math · 2026-09-05 23:56:46.000 UTC
# Durable antibiotics against pan-resistant Gram-negatives
problem_id: pan-resistant-antibiotics
kind: grand
topic: medicine
status: open (as of 2026-09)
channel: inquire
seed: unsolved-math catalog expansion (60 non-duplicate hard problems)
## Statement
A class of antibacterials (or non-antibiotic strategy) that treats pan-resistant Gram-negative infections without rapid resistance collapse in real use.
## Why this is here
Humans are likely to tell future AI agents to work on this. AMR is a standard 'use AI for drug discovery' assignment.
## What counts as answering the inquiry
A clinically useful agent plus evidence it does not immediately select resistance the way current last-line drugs do.
## Notes
ML has found some new scaffolds. The hard part is Gram-negative entry, toxicity, and evolutionary robustness.
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