Innoviva Specialty Therapeutics’ Positive Phase 3 Oral Zoliflodacin Data for the Treatment of Uncomplicated Gonorrhea Announced at ESCMID Global 2024
Entasis Therapeutics and the Global Antibiotic Research & Development Partnership
WALTHAM, Mass., Nov. 07, 2018 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) -- Entasis Therapeutics (NASDAQ: ETTX), a clinical-stage biopharmaceutical company focused on the discovery and development of novel antibacterial products, announced that The New England journal of Medicine (NEJM) published results from a Phase 2 clinical trial evaluating the safety and efficacy of zoliflodacin in patients with uncomplicated gonorrhea. Zoliflodacin represents a new type of oral antibiotic that inhibits DNA synthesis in a manner different from currently approved classes of antibiotic drugs. The clinical trial was sponsored by The National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Disease (NIAID), part of the U.S. National Institutes of Health (NIH).
Entasis Therapeutics has filed to raise up to $86 million through an IPO. The AstraZeneca spinout is seeking the money to fund a phase 3 trial of a drug to overcome bacterial resistance to beta-lactams.