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Motif A Step Closer To Succeeding With Iclaprim After Phase III Success

 
• By Joseph Haas

Biotech firm hopes its once-shelved antibiotic will provide a therapeutic option for renally impaired patients with serious skin infections. With only one previous DHFR inhibitor ever approved, Motif also anticipates that iclaprim will offer an option for multidrug-resistant infections.

Antibiotic resistant bacteria closeup biofilm

Motif Bio PLC unveiled positive top-line Phase III data for novel antibiotic iclaprim in acute bacterial skin and skin structure infections (ABSSSI) April 18, which moves the drug one step closer to US and EU approval after it was shipwrecked by safety concerns around antibiotics nearly one decade ago.

The clinical-stage firm, based both in New York and London, announced that the synthetic diaminopyrimidine demonstrated non-inferiority to vancomycin across...

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