Pfizer Licenses TB Drug Sutezolid To Medicines Patent Pool

Deal Could Speed Up Development After Six-Year Hiatus

Pfizer and the Medicines Patent Pool have signed a licensing agreement for the US firm’s investigational TB compound, sutezolid. The move should help to speed up the availability of the product, whose development appears to have been stalled since 2013.

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A licensing deal could spur the development of a new TB drug • Source: Shutterstock

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