Enanta Pharmaceuticals, a Watertown, MA-based developer of anti-infection drugs, said today it has started an early stage clinical of an oral antibiotic for drug-resistant bacteria. The drug, EDP-322, is being tested for hospital and community-acquired infections, including drug-resistant MRSA. In previous animal tests, the drug showed activity against MRSA strains that resist other potent antibiotics like vancomycin, Pfizer’s Zyvox, and Cubist Pharmaceuticals’ Cubicin.
Author: Luke Timmerman
Luke is an award-winning journalist specializing in life sciences. He has served as national biotechnology editor for Xconomy and national biotechnology reporter for Bloomberg News. Luke got started covering life sciences at The Seattle Times, where he was the lead reporter on an investigation of doctors who leaked confidential information about clinical trials to investors. The story won the Scripps Howard National Journalism Award and several other national prizes. Luke holds a bachelor’s degree in journalism from the University of Wisconsin-Madison, and during the 2005-2006 academic year, he was a Knight Science Journalism Fellow at MIT.
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