CARB-X is awarding $1.2 million to the Andrew G. Myers research group at Harvard University to develop enhanced antibiotics that target multidrug-resistant gram-negative bacterial pathogens, including Escherichia coli and Klebsiella pneumoniae, to treat urinary tract infections, pneumonia and bloodstream infections.
Combating Antibiotic-Resistant Bacteria Biopharmaceutical Accelerator (CARB-X) has awarded Baxiva AG $3 million to develop its multivalent glycoconjugate vaccine.
GSK plc knew a good thing when it swooped in nearly three years ago to rescue Spero Therapeutics Inc.’s oral antibiotic from a complete response letter (CRL). New pivotal phase III study data showed tebipenem pivoxil hydrobromide (HBr) for complicated urinary tract infections (cUTI), including pyelonephritis, hit its primary endpoint.
In what represents just the company’s third PCT filing, Houston-based Starling Medical Inc.’s co-founders, Hannah McKenney and William Hendricks, seek to gain further protection for their at-home urine diagnostic patient-monitoring platform that eliminates the traditional use of catching containers and dipsticks.
Combating Antibiotic-Resistant Bacteria Biopharmaceutical Accelerator (CARB-X) will award Arrepath Inc. $3.7 million to execute a lead optimization workplan for its first-in-class antibiotic targeting a clinically novel target for the treatment of complicated urinary tract infections caused by multidrug-resistant Enterobacterales.
In what represents the first patenting from Glasgow-based Microplate Dx Ltd., three of its co-founders describe a system for diagnosing microbial infections and performing rapid antimicrobial susceptibility testing, enabling quicker and more precise determination of effective antibiotics.
With antimicrobial resistance growing to many first-line antibiotics, a key concern in the U.S. FDA’s approving an oral penem like Iterum Therapeutics International Ltd.’s tablet combining sulopenem etzadroxil and probenecid is that it could become a first-line, go-to drug in treating uncomplicated urinary tract infections and, possibly, more serious infections off-label.
After receiving a complete response letter from the U.S. FDA more than three years ago and conducting another phase III trial, Iterum Therapeutics plc is preparing to make its case before an advisory committee Sept. 9 for sulopenem etzadroxil/probenecid as an oral treatment option for women with uncomplicated urinary tract infections caused by specific microorganisms.
Enlivex Therapeutics Ltd. extolled the top-line “positive indication of effect and safety” from the phase II study of Allocetra in treating sepsis and sepsis shock, but the market took another view of the clinical trial. In an analysis of eligible adult patients from the cell therapy’s multicenter, randomized, placebo-controlled, dose-finding study of 120 enrolled patients, the company also reported low mortality rates.
Gram-negative bacteria require the metalloenzyme LpxC for their outer membrane biogenesis. Blacksmith Medicines Inc. has identified an LpxC inhibitor, FG-960, which has shown a robust in vitro and in vivo profile against multidrug-resistant Enterobacterales. FG-60 is currently being investigated for the treatment of urinary tract infections (UTIs).
