ANTABIO Completes € 12.5M Series A
New investors Omnes, BNP Paribas Développement and Sham Innovation Santé invest an additional €5.2M on top of the €7.3M first closing announced in October 2017.
First publication from Antabio’s novel metallo-β-lactamase (MBL) inhibitor program
Antabio announces publication of a manuscript in Antimicrobial Agents and Chemotherapy: Discovery of a Novel Metallo-ß-Lactamase Inhibitor, which can Potentiate Meropenem Activity against Carbapenem-Resistant Enterobacteriaceae (currently available as an ePublication – https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/29530861). This is the first publication from Antabio’s novel metallo-β-lactamase (MBL) inhibitor…
ANTABIO Announces Key Executive Appointments
Antabio SAS, a biopharmaceutical company developing novel antibacterial treatments in areas of highest unmet needs, is pleased to announce the addition of four highly successful and accomplished biotech executives to the management team. These appointments come soon after the first closing of Antabio’s Series A financing round and notification that Antabio has been selected as one of 18 out of 368 international candidates for a CARB-X subsidy award of up to $8,9 million.
ANTABIO raises € 7.3M Series A Financing to Develop Novel Treatments against Drug-Resistant Gram-negative infections
Antabio SAS, a biopharmaceutical company developing novel antibacterial treatments in areas of highest unmet needs, announced today the completion of a €7.3M series A financing with subscriptions from investment funds iXO Private Equity, IRDI SORIDEC Gestion, Galia Gestion and from the company’s historical investors including former President of OM Pharma Christophe Ricard.
ANTABIO awarded up to $8.9M from CARB-X to accelerate the development of its new treatment for chronic infections in Cystic Fibrosis patients
Antabio SAS, a biopharmaceutical company developing novel antibacterial treatments in areas of highest unmet needs, announced today that it has been awarded up to $8.9 million non-dilutive funding from CARB-X, the world’s largest public-private partnership devoted to antibacterial R&D. Antabio was selected by CARB-X from a group of 368 applicants worldwide and is part of the first cohort that includes companies from Continental Europe.
Marc Lemonnier elected at the Board of the BEAM Alliance
Antabio’s CEO Marc Lemonnier has been elected at the Board of Directors of the BEAM Alliance (Biopharmaceutical companies from Europe innovating in Anti-Microbial resistance research) further to the alliance’s Extraordinary General Assembly held in Paris on 20 December 2016. The BEAM Alliance represents European biopharmaceutical companies involved in developing innovative products to tackle antimicrobial resistance.
Antabio receives the BIOVISION 2016 Investor Conference Biotech Award
Antabio announced today that the company has received the BIOVISION Investment Conference 2016 Award in the biotech category. The BIOVISION Investor Conference was created to accelerate the fundraising process of Biotech, Medtech, e-health and environmental health start-ups by putting them in direct contact with potential business and development partners.
Antabio announces further progress towards the treatment of antibiotic-resistant infections
Antabio announced today that it has achieved two milestones in its antibacterial drug discovery collaborations with the Wellcome Trust. These results release a further €3.1 million from the Seeding Drug Discovery Awards received by Antabio. The first collaboration (“the MBLi program”) began in February 2013 when the Wellcome Trust awarded Antabio €4.7 million to fund the discovery of a novel, safe and efficacious inhibitor of bacterial metallo beta-lactamases (MBLs).
Antabio to participate in Nature’s Webcast on Combating Antibiotic Resistance on March 9
Dr. Marc Lemonnier, co-founder and CEO of Antabio, will participate in a BioPharma Dealmakers webcast, sponsored in part by Antabio, featuring five companies innovating antibiotic technologies. The webcast, part of the BioPharma Dealmakers series, is scheduled for 8AM PST, 11AM EST, 4PM GMT, 5PM CET on March 9. The webcast will explore some of the technologies and companies tackling the emerging antibiotic resistance crisis.
Antabio signs the Industry call for new antimicrobial business models presented at the World Economic Forum, Davos
On January 21, 2016, the Declaration by the Pharmaceutical, Biotechnology and Diagnostics Industries on Combating Antimicrobial Resistance was launched at an event at the World Economic Forum in Davos, Switzerland. This was drafted, agreed and signed by ANTABIO among 85 companies and nine industry associations from across the global pharmaceutical, diagnostics and biotechnology industries in 18 different countries.