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Infex and Justus-Liebig-University Giessen awarded £1 million grant from PACE
18-Feb-2025
Infex Therapeutics, a leading anti-infectives specialist, announces that in collaboration with Justus-Liebig-University Giessen (“JLU”), Germany it has been awarded a £1 million grant from PACE (Pathways to Antimicrobial Clinical Efficacy), to develop a first-in-class BamA inhibitor targeting ...
Her start-up Baxiva is developing a vaccine that makes bacteria visible to the immune system
03-Feb-2025
Every second woman and every eighth man suffer from urinary tract infections. These are painful and can recur with serious health consequences. Pioneer Fellow Giorgia Greter has a solution. Giorgia Greter could have been sitting in one of these minimalist, but elegant offices of a venture capital ...
"Bacterial infections are likely to surpass cancer and heart disease as a number one cause of human deaths in the future..."
05-Sep-2024
Amferia, a Swedish medtech company focused on developing innovative antimicrobial healthcare solutions, announces the successful closure of a 1.2-million-euro investment round. The round was over prescribed and spearheaded by existing owners and new investors. The funding will support the ...
Non-profit organization supports start-ups in the development of urgently needed new antibiotics
02-Jul-2024
INCATE, the INCubator for Antimicrobial Therapies in Europe, has been honoured with the 2024 Lighthouse Award for outstanding Transfer of Knowledge and Technology by the Swiss National Science Foundation (SNSF). The award ceremony took place on June 27th, in Bern, Switzerland. The SNSF has ...
Novel preventive agent against multi-resistant bacteria to combat their colonization in the nose
01-Jul-2024
In recent years, HYpharm has worked with university partners and with the support of the German Center for Infection Research (DZIF) to further develop and investigate the active ingredient HY-133. HY-133 is a novel protein that originally comes from bacteriophages - viruses that only infect ...
Spin-off has built a platform that creates new ways to tackle bacterial infections
11-Dec-2023
Obulytix, a groundbreaking biotech spin-off founded by seasoned experts in phage lysin research from Ghent University and KU Leuven, is set to revolutionize the fight against antimicrobial resistance with its novel phage lysin-based antibiotics. The innovative, phage lysin-based platform – ...
An important step towards integrating precision medicine and antibiotic resistance control
07-Dec-2023
Lifespin GmbH, an emerging company in the field of precision health information, introduces its Therapeutic Drug Monitoring (TDM) of anti-infectives. This Laboratory Development Test (LDT) represents a significant advance in the field of personalized medicine by enabling individualized approaches ...
Spin-out from the Universities of Glasgow and Oxford
21-Nov-2023
Glox Therapeutics, a company pioneering the development of precision antibiotic therapies based on naturally occurring bacteriocins, announced it has raised £4.3M in seed funding to develop effective targeted therapeutics against antibiotic-resistant Gram-negative bacteria. The Company will use ...
Smartbax nominated for Falling Walls award
06-Nov-2023
It all began with basic research: While conducting laboratory experiments, a team at the Technical University of Munich (TUM) came across an active agent against multidrug-resistant bacteria with a fundamental difference to antibiotics developed to date. The researchers have since established a ...
In minutes rather than days to prescribe the optimal antibiotic
13-Sep-2023
Glasgow diagnostics spinout Microplate Dx has closed a £2.5M seed funding round to develop its point-of-care diagnostic platform which can confirm the presence of bacteria and guide a patient’s doctor to effective treatment by rapidly identifying effective antibiotics to use and which ones to ...
