Cempra Pharmaceuticals

Pharma

Cempra IPO expected this week; two other healthcare firms set to go public

Antibiotics developer Cempra Pharmaceuticals is one of three healthcare companies expected to go public this week. A total of eight initial public offerings are expected this week, according to Renaissance Capital, a Greenwich, Connecticut research firm specializing in initial public offerings. Besides Chapel Hill, North Carolina-based Cempra’s planned $86 million IPO, the other healthcare-related IPOs […]

Pharma

Cempra IPO to raise $86M for clinical trials on novel antibiotics

Drug development company Cempra Pharmaceuticals plans to raise $86.2 million in an initial public offering to pay for late-stage clinical trials on a pair of novel antibiotic compounds targeting drug-resistant bacteria. The IPO filing comes a month after Chapel Hill, North Carolina-based Cempra announced positive phase 2 results for antibiotic candidate CEM-101, also called Solithromycin, […]

Pharma

Cempra antibiotic compound as effective, safer than levofloxacin

Cempra Pharmaceuticals‘ bacterial pneumonia drug candidate was demonstrated to be just as effective as a currently available antibiotic and more important, it posed less risk of causing adverse reactions. In announcing phase 2 clinical trial results for solithromycin today, Chapel Hill, North Carolina biotechnology company Cempra said the efficacy of its drug candidate was comparable […]

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Antibacterials pharma Cempra raises $5M; lead compound targets MRSA

Cempra Pharmaceuticals, which is developing novel antibiotics targeting drug-resistant bacteria, has raised $5 million in financing, according to securities filings. The Chapel Hill, North Carolina-based company has two clinical stage antibacterial compounds; one of which is being developed to fight nasty skin infections, including MRSA. That compound, called TAKSTA, is set to enter phase 3 […]

Hospitals

MRSA treatment from Cempra inching toward phase 3 trials (price tag: $60M)

The growing prevalence of drug-resistant bacteria means a rise in so-called superbugs with no antibiotics to treat them. Cempra Pharmaceuticals aims to bring new antibacterial weapons to that fight. The Chapel Hill, North Carolina-based pharmaceutical company has two clinical-stage drug candidates, including one for MRSA infections, that would each address the growing problem of antimicrobial […]

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