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FDA Grants QIDP Designation to Acurx's Lead Antibiotic Product Candidate, ACX-362E for Clostridium Difficile Infection

Acurx Pharmaceuticals, LLC (“Acurx” or the “Company”), a privately held clinical stage biopharmaceutical company focused on developing new antibiotics for difficult to treat infections, today …

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Antibiotic resistance: Nosopharm and the University of Illinois at Chicago describe mechanism of action of new class of antibiotics in Molecular Cell

Newly discovered antibiotic binds to ribosomeand disrupts protein synthesis Nosopharm, a company dedicated to the research and development of new anti-infective drugs, and the University …

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Symcel secures €3.6 million Horizon 2020 Phase II grant for clinical validation of customized antimicrobial susceptibility testing

Symcel, the company behind the revolutionary cell-based assay tool for real-time cell metabolism measurements, calScreener™, has secured €3.572 million Horizon 2020 funding to support the …

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Locus Biosciences raises $19 million series A for CRISPR-Cas3 Antimicrobials

Locus Biosciences has closed $19 million in Series A funding led by venture capital firm ARTIS Ventures with additional financing from notable institutional investors Tencent …

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New BEAM Alliance Position Paper calls out worldwide stakeholders to support SME-driven innovation and revive the product pipeline fighting antimicrobial resistance

In 2017, the collective fight to combat antimicrobial resistance (AMR) has experienced a new upswing. Following the eye-opening report of British economist Lord Jim O’Neill, …

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New treatments to solve global antibiotic crisis have potential to reach the market as early as 2020

Helperby Therapeutics (Helperby), a pioneering British biopharmaceuticals company, have developed a novel answer to the clear and present danger of antimicrobial resistance – Antibiotic Resistance …

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