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Tuberculosis
Unique Collaboration Between TB Alliance and Tibotec To Accelerate Tuberculosis Drug Development
June 30th, 2009
A new landmark collaboration between the Global Alliance for TB Drug Development (TB Alliance), a not-for-profit, product development partnership, and Tibotec Inc., (Tibotec), a global pharmaceutical company, has been announced at the Pacific Health Summit in response to the urgent need to accelerate the discovery and development of new drugs to fight tuberculosis (TB). The two organizations will share their expertise and resources in the development of TMC207, which could become the first TB drug with a new mechanism of action in 40 years. The interim data from an ongoing Phase II study of TMC207 were recently published in the New England Journal of Medicine. In the...
Source: TB & Outbreaks Week (2009-06-30)
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