SHANGHAI, June 3, 2021 /PRNewswire/ -- MicuRx Pharmaceutical Co., Ltd. (MicuRx), a leading biopharmaceutical company focused on the discovery, development and commercialization of antibacterial agents against drug-resistant bacterial infection, announced that China National Medical Products Administration (NMPA) has approved its new drug application for contezolid as the treatment of complicated skin and soft tissue infection. Contezolid, designed and developed by MicuRx's China and US R&D team, is the next-generation oxazolidinone agent against multi-drug resistant (MDR) Gram-positive bacterial infection. Contezolid is the exciting product resulting from the company's 12 years' effort, which represents a major breakthrough for the new drug discovery to combat infectious diseases in China.
FOSTER CITY, Calif. and SHANGHAI, Aug. 13, 2020 /PRNewswire/ -- MicuRx Pharmaceuticals Inc. today announced that the global partnership Combating Antibiotic Resistant Bacteria Biopharmaceutical Accelerator (CARB-X) has committed up to US$7.78 million of nondilutive financing for a Phase 1 clinical trial and related R&D activities of its new antimicrobial agent MRX-8. Previously, CARB-X has funded investigational new drug (IND) enabling studies for MRX-8 in the US.
MicuRx Pharmaceuticals Inc., today announced positive top-line results from the pivotal Phase 3 clinical trial in China for its lead antibacterial drug candidate contezolid (MRX-I) in adult patients with complicated skin and soft tissue infection (cSSTI). Contezolid met the primary endpoint of noninferiority compared to linezolid for the clinical cure rate at the test-of-cure visit (TOC visit, 7-14 days after the last dose of study drug), and was associated with fewer drug-related hematologic laboratory adverse events.
FOSTER CITY, Calif. & SHANGHAI--(BUSINESS WIRE)--MicuRx Pharmaceuticals, Inc. today announced the receipt of the qualified infectious disease product (QIDP) classification and grant of fast track status by the U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) for contezolid (MRX-I) and its prodrug contezolid acefosamil (MRX-4) for the treatment of acute bacterial skin and skin structure infections (ABSSSI).
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