The US Department of Veterans Affairs has synthesized substituted aminopiperazine compounds reported to be useful for the treatment of bacterial and fungal infections.
The EMA’s Committee for Medicinal Products for Human Use (CHMP) adopted a positive opinion recommending approval of Pfizer Inc.’s Emblaveo (aztreonam-avibactam), an antibiotic combination that would offer a new option to patients with serious bacterial infections caused by multidrug-resistant gram-negative bacteria. If approved, Emblaveo would be among the first beta-lactam/beta-lactamase inhibitor combos cleared for use in Europe.
Scientists at Fujifilm Corp. and Osaka University have described piperazine derivatives acting as drug efflux pump inhibitors reported to be useful for the treatment of bacterial infections.
Researchers from Viiv Healthcare Ltd. presented preclinical data for the next-generation maturation inhibitor (MI) VH-3739937 (VH-937, zegruvirimat), currently in clinical testing for the treatment of HIV.
Merck & Co. has revealed the discovery of novel oral SARS-CoV-2 3C-like proteinase (3CLpro; Mpro) inhibitors for the potential treatment and/or prophylaxis of COVID-19. 3CLpro plays a key role in viral life cycle by cleaving viral protein and helps in replication and infection, which make 3CLpro a target for designing drugs to treat COVID-19.
Scientists at the Weizmann Institute of Science in Israel announced the discovery of the new intestinal microbiota species Kazachstania weizmannii in mice, which competed with and limited the growth of Candida albicans, thus preventing candidiasis. Both microorganisms belong to the Saccharomycetaceae family and reside in humans, maintaining a complex interaction with therapeutic value.
For the treatment of HIV infection, non-nucleoside reverse transcriptase inhibitors (NNRTIs) are used to prevent viral replication by binding to a pocket near the polymerase active site of HIV-1 reverse transcriptase.
Precisio Biotix Therapeutics Inc. has entered into an agreement with Mayo Clinic that will include co-development of novel precision antibacterials targeting indications prone to antimicrobial-resistant (AMR) infections. Precisio creates lower cost novel precision biological antibacterials with a focus on lung and skin infections.
The use of latency reversing agents is useful for reducing the HIV reservoir, but their effect on infected cells isolated from untreated people with HIV is still unknown.
At this week’s ACS meeting in New Orleans, Fimbrion Therapeutics Inc. presented the rational design of a different series of small-molecule biaryl O- and C-linked mannoside-based inhibitors of the virulence factor FimH, as potential agents for the treatment of urinary tract infections (UTIs).