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Notable Contracts: Cempra Biodefense Antibiotic for Children

by Global Biodefense Staff
May 28, 2013

The U.S. Department of Health and Human Services Biomedical Advanced Research and Development Authority (BARDA) has awarded a two-year, $17.7 million contract to Cempra Pharmaceuticals of Chapel Hill, N.C. for the advanced research and development of an antibiotic that potentially could treat children infected with anthrax, tularemia or community-acquired bacterial pneumonia.

The contract supports studies needed to request U.S. Food and Drug Administration approval of a drug called solithromycin. If approved, the drug would be the first orally administrated antibiotic approved in decades to treat children who develop community acquired bacterial pneumonia. 

“The needs of special populations including children are paramount in public health emergency preparedness,” said BARDA Director Robin Robinson, Ph.D. “The development of this new antibiotic could help address a gap in our nation’s preparedness and could bolster clinicians’ ability to treat drug-resistant bacterial infections, which represent a growing public health threat.”

Studies of the drug’s use in treating anthrax or tularemia will be conducted under the FDA’s Animal Efficacy Rule and could provide additional treatment options for use in a public health emergency involving these bioterrorism infections. The FDA’s Animal Efficacy Rule allows efficacy findings from adequate and well-controlled animal studies to support FDA approval when it is not feasible or ethical to conduct trials in humans.

Solithromycin has demonstrated efficacy in adults with community acquired bacterial pneumonia and uncomplicated urogenital gonorrhea. In late 2012, Cempra initiated a global multi-center clinical trial of orally administered solithromycin in patients with community acquired bacterial pneumonia. The study will be complete in the first half of 2014, and data from the study will be used, in part, to determine the advanced research and development activities supported under the contract.

The project with Cempra is one of several new projects supporting antibiotic candidates added to the existing BARDA antimicrobial drug portfolio this year. BARDA is seeking additional proposals for broad-spectrum antimicrobials that could potentially treat or prevent illness due to biological threat agents. Proposals are accepted through a Broad Agency Announcement BARDA-BAA-12-100-SOL-00011.

Source: HHS, Cempra

Tags: AnthraxAntimicrobialsASPRAwardsBARDABioterrorismHHS

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