Anacor Pharmaceuticals and the Institute for OneWorld Health have entered into a joint research agreement to research antibacterial compounds to treat shigellosis, commonly known as bloody diarrhoea.
The institute has received funding for the project from the UK’s Department for International Development.
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Anacor Pharmaceuticals CEO David Perry said that the company has demonstrated that its boron-based chemistry platform and strength in antibacterial research has the potential to create new antibiotics.
“We hope to leverage these to address a disease that affects over one hundred million people annually,” Perry said.
Shigellosis is an infectious disease caused by the gram-negative bacterium of the Shigella genus. The condition affects an estimated 80-165 million people worldwide and causes an estimated 600,000 deaths each year.
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