JERUSALEM, Israel, August 31, 2021 -- Omnix Medical, a Jerusalem-based biopharmaceutical company developing next-generation anti-infectives for the treatment of life-threatening infections, has received a grant by the U.S. National Institutes of Health (NIH) for the development of its first-in-class antimicrobial peptide OMN6 targeting Acinetobacter baumannii (AB). Acinetobacter baumannii are multi-drug resistant (MDR) bacteria and designated number one on the WHO/CDC Global Priority Pathogens List.