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Last week, the PAN-TB collaboration announced initial plans for a Phase 2 clinical trial evaluating two novel drug regimens to treat Tuberculosis. Sponsored by the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation, the PAN-TB, or “Project to Accelerate New Treatments for Tuberculosis”, collaboration brings together non-profit, philanthropic, and private sector partners for a common mission to develop novel TB medicines that are better-tolerated, shorter in duration, and simpler to use than existing options. The collaboration includes members such as Evotec, GSK, Janssen, Otsuka, TB...
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10 Jun 2014
On June 9 th , the Center for Strategic and International Studies (CSIS) released six policy reports detailing the domestic and global health burden of tuberculosis and recommendations for the United States government to combat the disease. The policy reports were the culmination of major findings...
1 Jun 2014
The Kick TB Campaign is a unique project that uses football (soccer), the World’s most popular sport, to educate and engage young people in the effort to stop the spread of tuberculosis. First inaugurated in South Africa during the 2010 World Cup, Kick TB has expanded to Brazil, the host country of...
27 May 2014
Dr. Iwao Ojima Dr. Iwao Ojima is a Distinguished Professor and Director of the Institute of Chemical Biology and Drug Discovery at Stony Brook University. His group recently published a paper in PLOS One entitled A Trisubstituted Benzimidazole Cell Division Inhibitor with Efficacy against...
29 Apr 2014
The European Commission has approved Delaminid (Deltyba™) for use in patients suffering from MDR-TB. Delamanid was developed by Otsuka Pharmaceutical Co., Ltd., a Japanese pharmaceutical company dedicated to drug discovery for tuberculosis. The press release from Otsuka can be found here Related...
22 Apr 2014
TB Alliance has announced that it will conduct a landmark Phase 3 clinical trial aimed at shortening the treatment of drug sensitive and MDR-TB. The trial known as STAND (Shortening Treatments by Advancing Novel Drugs) will test the PaMZ drug regimen composed of two drug candidates not yet approved...
22 Apr 2014
The drug SQ109, developed by Sequella for the treatment of tuberculosis, blocks key biochemical pathways in bacteria, fungi, and parasites. The multiple targets of SQ109 have been determined by researchers at the University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign. The researchers also created analogs of SQ109...
26 Mar 2014
TB Alliance , an international non-profit whose mission is to develop better and more affordable drugs against tuberculosis, made three announcements on World TB Day demonstrating their commitment to combating childhood TB. Web portal for childhood TB On World TB Day, the TB Alliance in partnership...
11 Mar 2014
Vadim Makarov et. al. Towards a new combination therapy for tuberculosis with next generation benzothiazinones . EMBO Molecular Medicine. 2014. March 1; 6(3). doi: 10.1002/emmm.201303575 A new antibiotic, labeled ‘PBTZ169’, has been shown to be effective against drug sensitive and MDR-tuberculosis...
6 Mar 2014
The European Medicines Agency (EMA) has recently approved Sirturo (bedaquiline) for conditional use in the European Union for adults suffering from pulmonary MDR-TB. The press release from Multimedia News Release can be found at: http://www.multivu.com/mnr/65014-sirturo-treatment-multi-drug-...
5 Mar 2014
Richard E. Lee et al. Spectinamides: a new class of semisynthetic antituberculosis agents that overcome native drug efflux . Nature Medicine. 2014. March 6; 20(152). doi:10.1038/nm.3458 Abstract: Although the classical antibiotic spectinomycin is a potent bacterial protein synthesis inhibitor, poor...
25 Nov 2013
Source: European Medicines Agency http://www.ema.europa.eu On 21 November 2013, the Committee for Medicinal Products for Human Use (CHMP) recommended the granting of a conditional marketing authorisation for the medicinal product Deltyba for the treatment of lung infections due to multidrug-...
24 Oct 2013
Click to access report. This is the eighteenth global report on tuberculosis (TB) published by WHO in a series that started in 1997. It provides a comprehensive and up-to-date assessment of the TB epidemic and progress in implementing and financing TB prevention, care and control at global, regional...
9 Sep 2013
By: Shashank Gupta ( sgupta33@jhmi.edu ) In a significant finding for millions of TB patients, researchers have recently shown that adjunct chemotherapy with verapamil can accelerate tuberculosis treatment in mouse model. Investigators at Johns Hopkins School of Medicine have found that adding...
5 Sep 2013
You are invited to join us for the Stop TB Partnership Working Group on New Drugs’ Annual Meeting 2013 at Le Méridien Etoile in Paris, France, on Oct. 29th from 15:00 to 19:00. This meeting is held before the 44th Union World Conference on Lung Health (The Union). During the meeting we will review...
27 Aug 2013
Image Courtesy of Expert Medical Education This interactive workshop is held in conjunction with the Interscience Conference on Antimicrobial Agents and Chemotherapy (ICAAC). The workshop is intended to provide clinicians, researchers, students and representatives from regulatory non-government...