Staphylococcus aureus is the most common bacterium recovered in orthopedic infections. Exebacase and CF-296 (ContraFect) are known to be anti-staphylococcal lysins with activity against S. aureus.
Blue Water Vaccines Inc. is ready to try its hand at developing a monkeypox vaccine. The company is launching an exploratory program to develop a vaccine attempting to present antigens within its norovirus shell and protrusion virus-like particle (VLP) platform.
Researchers from Bioland Laboratory (Guangzhou Regenerative Medicine and Health - Guangdong Laboratory) and the University of Groningen have generated a series of novel biphenyl-benzamides as inhibitors of cell division protein FtsZ with encouraging antibacterial activity.
Orna Therapeutics Inc., which is pioneering a novel circular RNA protein expression technology in several therapeutic areas, has achieved lift-off. The Cambridge, Mass.-based company has closed a broadly based alliance in infectious disease and oncology with Merck & Co. Inc., under which it is getting $150 million up front and up to $3.5 billion in development, regulatory and sales-based milestones. In addition, Merck, of Rahway, N.J., is investing another $100 million in Orna’s equity, as part of its $221 million series B round, which the company also disclosed on Aug. 16.
Metabrain Research and Shanghai Visonpharma have presented macrocyclic Toll-like receptor 7 (TLR7) agonists reported to be useful for the treatment of hepatitis B virus (HBV), HCV, HIV and influenza virus infections, and cancer.
Scientists from the University Grenoble Alpes in France and colleagues have recently identified a promising drug candidate with broad-spectrum activity against apicomplexans using a drug repurposing strategy.
After declarations from the World Health Organization and the U.S. government that monkeypox is a public health emergency, attention is turning to the pharma industry’s response to the disease. Vaccines look likely to play a crucial role in controlling monkeypox – but could antivirals play a significant part as they did in the COVID-19 pandemic?
Vellore Institute of Technology University (VIT) and BG Negev Technologies and Applications have described new curcumin or piperine analogues acting as NF-kappaB (NFKB) activation inhibitors and/or quorum sensing signaling inhibitors reported to be useful for treatment of cancer, fungal and bacterial infections and inflammatory disorders.
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