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Antibiotics Firm Macrolide Launches

by Lisa M. Jarvis
March 9, 2015 | A version of this story appeared in Volume 93, Issue 10

Macrolide Pharmaceuticals has launched with $22 million of financing to support the discovery of macrolide antibiotics. The start-up is founded on technology developed by Harvard chemist Andrew Myers, who found a way to synthesize macrolides from basic building blocks. The goal is to expand the efficacy of macrolides to combat both gram-positive and gram-negative bacteria. Myers and cofounder Lawrence Miller previously started Tetraphase Pharmaceuticals, which exploits tetracycline synthesis technology developed by Myers.

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