Study reaffirms the Foundation’s commitment to advance solutions to the growing challenge of antibiotic resistance
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The Cystic Fibrosis Foundation awarded up to $4.7 million to EnBiotix Inc. to study the potential use of inhaled colistin as an additional option to treat Pseudomonas infections in people with cystic fibrosis who are not responding to current treatments.
Investment will support discovery research of a novel Gene CodingTM approach that could benefit all people with CF regardless of their mutation
The Cystic Fibrosis Foundation awarded up to $3.5 million to Arrevus Inc. to test a potential treatment for pulmonary exacerbations in people with cystic fibrosis in a late phase clinical trial.
This milestone was reached nearly two years ahead of the initiative’s five-year commitment. However, the Foundation aims to continue to support infection research at the same pace as it has in the past three years.
The funding will help support research into the development of potential new modulator therapies for people with cystic fibrosis with an F508del mutation.
Funding will support a Phase 2b trial of phage therapy for chronic Pseudomonas aeruginosa lung infections.