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Cancer-Focused Medivir Licenses AMR Centre Promising Superbug Assets

 
• By Sten Stovall

Medivir has licensed to the UK's AMR Centre exclusive worldwide rights to its superbug MBLI program in return for a share of eventual sales from generated therapies.

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AMRC Will Develop Compounds From Medivir’s Anti-Superbug MBLI Program • Source: Shutterstock

Sweden-based Medivir – which in October 2016 decided to only focus on oncology R&D – is divesting its research stage metallo-β-lactamase inhibitor (MBLI) program to the UK's AMR Centre Ltd in return for a proportion of future sales from antimicrobials produced.

The MBLI program is aimed at tackling the threat posed by NDM-1 and other metallo-β-lactamases, enzymes that make bacteria resistant...

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