Industry | Pharmaceutical |
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Founded | 2000 |
Headquarters | Parsippany, NJ |
Area served | Worldwide |
Products | Broad-spectrum antibiotics |
Website | melinta |
Melinta Therapeutics, founded in 2000 as Rib-X Pharmaceuticals, is an American publicly traded biopharmaceutical firm that focuses on the design and development of novel broad-spectrum antibiotics for the treatment of antibiotic-resistant infections in hospital settings. The company is located in Parsippany, New Jersey.[1]
In mid-2011, Sanofi entered into a global research collaboration and licensing option with the company to develop and commercialize novel antibiotics.[2] It was renamed Melinta Therapeutics in 2013.[3]
One of its products, delafloxacin (Baxdela), a fluoroquinolone antibiotic acquired from Wakunaga Pharmaceutical in 2006,[2] was approved by the FDA in 2017.[4]
As of 2016, the company was also developing radezolid, a next-generation oxazolidinone for bacterial acne.[3]
Melinta shredded off its discovery research team in late 2018.[5] It also moved its headquarters from New Haven to Morristown, New Jersey in early 2019.
On December 27, 2019, Melinta Therapeutics filed for Chapter 11 bankruptcy protection.[6]
In April 2020, it was transferred to affiliates of its creditor Deerfield Management.[5]
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