A Renaissance for Old Drugs: Fosfomycin and Colistin

Fosfomycin Who would have thought that a drug that has been around since 1969 [2] could become eligible for QIDP status in 2015? Well, Zavante Therapeutics recently garnered the coveted QIDP designation for fosfomycin IV. This formulation has been available in Europe for a quite some time but not in the Continue reading A Renaissance for Old Drugs: Fosfomycin and Colistin

Artie’s Law: Avoid Bad Advice and Don’t Follow ‘Mission Impossible’ Advice

In this day and age, few truly broad spectrum antibiotics are in development, although this does not hold true for narrow-spectrums.  Just think of all the MRSA drugs (quinolones, FabI inhibitors), the pseudomonas drugs (NCEs and monoclonals) or some narrow spectrum drugs that will need to be tested in MDR Continue reading Artie’s Law: Avoid Bad Advice and Don’t Follow ‘Mission Impossible’ Advice

Fighting P. aeruginosa (Part II)

At a still earlier stage of development, we found some exciting anti-pseudomonal compounds. First, there is BAL-30072, a sulfactam-derivative.  It has an interesting dual MoA as it works not only as a traditional B-lactam but also as an Fe-chelator blocking bacteria from accessing this essential nutrient [i].  It has very good anti-pseudomonas Continue reading Fighting P. aeruginosa (Part II)