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After ICAAC: Some More Thoughts on Eravacycline in cUTI and IGNITE-2

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When a well-designed pivotal Phase 3 trial fails to show NI, it demands an explanation.  While awaiting the company’s analysis of the data, many possible explanations are bandied about.  So it was not surprising that the eravacycline cUTI study (IGNITE-2) was mentioned quite often during ICAAC 2015, in sessions and Continue reading After ICAAC: Some More Thoughts on Eravacycline in cUTI and IGNITE-2→

Mme Erava and The Mysterious Case of Auto-Combustion

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SH: My dear Watson, did you read the news of the astonishing debacle that befell Mme Erava and made the headlines, creating anxiety of hitherto unknown proportions in Tetraland? Dr.W.: A disaster of epic proportions, for sure, and a mystery, an explanation which will require some very expert investigation. There is Continue reading Mme Erava and The Mysterious Case of Auto-Combustion→

Brilacidin – QIDP Drug At a Critical Juncture

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At around this time (July 2015), Cellceutix is expected to hammer out a Phase 3 program for brilacidin, its defensin-mimetic and host-defense protein (HDP) mimic structurally similar to magainin, with FDA. Brilacidin is certainly an interesting novel compound, coming from a new class, with a unique mode of action.  It has Continue reading Brilacidin – QIDP Drug At a Critical Juncture→