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Antibiotics

U.K. antibiotics firm Amprologix launches

by Marc S. Reisch
September 29, 2018 | A version of this story appeared in Volume 96, Issue 39

 

A photo of three Amprologix scientists at work in a lab.
Credit: Ingenza/Kieran Chambers Photography
Amprologix is working on a new class of antibiotics.

Amprologix, a British start-up firm developing antibiotics that are effective against drug-resistant infections, has launched from the University of Plymouth to commercialize a new antibiotic, epidermicin. The antibiotic was initially recovered from a skin bacterium, Staphylococcus epidermidis. Ingenza, an industrial bioprocess expert, is helping Amprologix scale up epidermicin production and is also taking a stake in the new firm.

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