Date: 2013-02-26
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Compound: new antibiotics that target Gram-negative bacterial infections
Company: Xellia Pharmaceuticals (Norway) SINTEF Materials and Chemistry (Trondheim) the Statens Serum Institut (Denmark)
Therapeutic area: Infectious diseases
Type agreement: R&D
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Disease: Gram-negative bacterial infections
Details: Xellia Pharmaceuticals, a fully integrated specialty pharmaceutical company focusing on the global anti-infective market, has announced that it is developing new antibiotics effective against multi-drug resistant (MDR), Gram-negative bacteria. This four year development project at Xellia is a collaboration with SINTEF Materials and Chemistry (Trondheim) and the Statens Serum Institut (Copenhagen). The project is being supported by a $3 million grant from the Research Council of Norway (NFR). The project also includes contributions from laboratories across Europe.
Xellia is aiming to develop new antibiotics that target Gram-negative bacterial infections, caused by, for example Pseudomonas, Klebsiella, Acinetobacter and Enterobacter species.
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