Boost for UTILITY in effort to bring new antibiotics to the USA

21 May 2018
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Newly-formed UTILITY therapeutics, which is focused on developing and commercializing antibiotics, has been granted Qualified Infectious Disease Products (QIDP) for both mecillinam and pivmecillinam, for the treatment of complicated urinary tract infections (cUTI).

Founded last year in Ely, UK, the firm announced only last week that it had taken on the rights to the drugs from Denmark's LEO Pharma, for the purpose of gaining regulatory approval in the USA.

The QIDP designation provides certain incentives for the development of antibacterial and antifungal drug products that treat serious or life-threatening infections, which may include priority review, and a five-year extension of market exclusivity.

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