AiCuris Seeks Partners For Antibacterial Programs

AiCuris CEO Holger Zimmermann talks to Mike Ward, global director of content for Informa Pharma Intelligence, about the company's journey to becoming a clinical biotech company since being spun out of Bayer AG as a small research group a decade ago.

AiCuris GMBH & Co. KG CEO Holger Zimmermann highlights AiCuris's anti-infectives development pipeline, the next big goals for the company and how new partners might fit into its plans.

AiCuris already has an exclusive worldwide licensing agreement in place with Merck & Co. Inc. for its lead compound, Letermovir (AIC246), an oral, late-stage antiviral candidate being investigated for...

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