For patients and doctors battling resistant infections, Validus Cellular Therapeutics is developing VCT-001, a novel preclinical stage anti-infective therapy unlike current small molecule antibiotics, which are susceptible to resistance and are limited accessing infections.
Infectious Disease
09/092021
09/032021
Vaccines must elicit immune responses of a sufficient magnitude and quality to prevent or treat disease. While existing vaccine technologies are capable of achieving this goal for many diseases, these strategies have thus far proven inadequate against global threats like HIV and cancer.
08/202021
Medical College of Wisconsin inventors have developed a novel biotherapeutic for eliminating antibiotic-resistant enterococci from the GI tract.
08/202021
Remdesivir is currently the only FDA-approved drug for treating COVID-19. While remdesivir improves recovery time, it does not significantly reduce death rates in hospitalized adults. Researchers at the University of Kansas have produced novel antivirals that shows promise as a COVID-19 treatment.
06/032021
Researchers at Kansas State University have developed a structure-based multiepitope fusion antigen (MEFA) technology for vaccines against Enterotoxigenic Escherichia coli (ETEC) bacteria.
04/092021
Researchers at the University of Missouri have developed novel inhibitors of beta-lactamase, a bacterial enzyme that provides resistance to β-lactam antibiotics.