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Antibiotics developer Entasis Therapeutics seeks to go public

by Ryan Cross
August 26, 2018 | A version of this story appeared in Volume 96, Issue 34

 

This year’s biotech stock boom continues as Entasis Therapeutics plans to raise $86 million in an initial public offering. Entasis was spun off from AstraZeneca in 2015 when the drugmaker dissolved its antibiotics research group. Now Entasis is developing antibiotics for tough-to-kill Gram-negative bacteria, particularly ones that are resistant to multiple drugs. So far it has three drugs in human clinical ­trials.

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