Paul Eckburg

Kalidex Pharmaceuticals, Inc. develops antibiotics for the treatment of serious infections. Its lead development candidate KPI-10 is a next-generation fluoroquinolone against a range of important gram-negative and gram-positive pathogens including multi-drug resistant strains and isolates resistant to currently available fluoroquinolones. The company was founded in 2010 by James Ge, Vernocn Jiang and George H. Talbot and is headquartered in Menlo Park, CA.

Cerexa, Inc. develops biopharmaceutical products. It is focuses on developing, acquiring and commercializing antibiotics to treat life-threatening, hospital-based infections. Cerexa's compound PPI-0903 is a cephalosporin used in treatment for complicated skin and skin-structure infections, as well as community-acquired and hospital-acquired pneumonias. The company was founded in 2005 and is headquartered in Alameda, CA.

Vicuron Pharmaceuticals LLC develops pharmaceutical products. It engages in discovering, developing, manufacturing, and commercializing vital medicine for seriously ill patients. The company offers anidulafungin drug, which prevents cell wall formation and other infectious fungi. It also offers antibiotic for the treatment of complicated skin and soft-tissue infections. The company was founded by Christopher T. Walsh in 1995 and is headquartered in King of Prussia, PA.

Zavante Therapeutics, Inc. manufactures pharmaceutical products. Its product ZOLYD is an investigational, first-in-class epoxide antibiotic with a spectrum of bactericidal Gram-negative and Gram-positive activity, including activity against most contemporary MDR strains that threaten hospitalized patients. The company was founded by Cam L. Garner, Evelyn Ellis-Grosse and Theodore R. Schroeder in 2013 and is headquartered in San Diego, CA.

Geom Therapeutics, Inc. operates as a biotechnology company focused on the development of novel antibiotics for MDR gram-negative infections. The company is headquartered in San Francisco, CA.

Utility Therapeutics Ltd. is a British company that has exclusive US commercial rights to two European-approved antibiotics, mecillinam and an oral prodrug of mecillinam, for the treatment of urinary tract infections (UTI). The private company is based in Altrincham, UK and was founded in 2018 by Rasmus Toft-Kehler, Morten Otto Alexander Sommer, Peter Aksel Villadsen. Mecillinam is being developed as a first-line therapy for complicated UTI in the hospital setting, while the oral prodrug is being developed for uncomplicated UTI. The company has received the FDA's Qualified Infectious Disease Product (QIDP) designation for the treatment of UTI. Utility Therapeutics is committed to developing antibiotics that meet urgent treatment needs for multi-drug resistant infections.

BUGWORKS Research, Inc. operates as a drug discovery company that discovers novel pharmaceutical assets for combating Antimicrobial Resistance (AMR). The company was founded by Santanu Datta, Anand Anandkumar and V. Balasubramanian in 2014 and is headquartered in Saratoga, CA.