We are committed to finding new therapeutic solutions for patients fighting infections, searching for first-in-class pathogen-specific compounds with novel mechanisms of action. Selective antibiotics will be the builders of a new era in the treatment of infectious diseases based on precision medicine. These new therapeutic solutions will minimize adverse effects on the microbiome and comorbidities induced by current treatments, as well as reduce the selection of resistant strains and the impact on the microbiological biodiversity of natural ecosystems, in line with the One Health paradigm
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ABAC Therapeutics and the University of Santiago de Compostela form a joint unit of screening for the discovery of new antimicrobial agents
September 28, 2023.- Infections caused by resistant bacteria to antibiotic are, currently, one of the biggest global health problems, in terms of mortality, social and economic impact1. Multi-resistant bacteria cause ...
Read moreABAC THERAPEUTICS participates in the European BREAKthrough project to overcome antimicrobial resistance
An alarming number of infections have become hard or impossible to treat due to the high percentage of bacteria resistant to existing antibiotics. Antimicrobial resistance is considered one of today’s ...
Read moreABAC Therapeutics in collaboration with FNDR and Peptris lead an international project to develop new antibiotics against gram-negative bacteria
ABAC Therapeutics, together with the artificial intelligence (AI) company, Peptris, and the Foundation for Neglected Disease Research (FNDR), with scientific support from Medicines for Malaria Venture (MMV), leads an international ...
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ABAC Therapeutics team is committed to finding innovative therapeutic solutions to protect the lives of patients infected with AMR, and fight one of the most serious global health crises, the "silent pandemic", in addition to promote a paradigm shift in the treatment of infectious diseases in general, through selective antibiotics and precision medicine to safeguard people's lives and well-being.
The ABAC team is supported by a consortium of collaborators and partners committed to the company's objectives. A multidisciplinary team of experts and advisers with knowledge and entrepreneurial vision, targeted at productivity and delivery. In an environment based on transparency, communication, respect and teamwork, all focused on achieving success
Medical need
AMR currently kills more than 1.27 million people around the world every year
Deaths could rise to 10 million by 2050 if urgent actions are not taken to tackle drug-resistance
The global economic impact may reach 100 billion euros, and millions of people could fall into extreme poverty.
Vision
ABAC Therapeutics foresees that precision treatments using pathogen-specific and narrow spectrum antimicrobial agents with novel mechanisms of action will constitute the next generation of anti-infective treatments.
The novel antibiotics will eliminate exclusively the pathogenic bacteria, minimizing any treatment-induced co-morbidities by broad spectrum compounds, such as untoward effects on the human microbiota. Besides, pathogen-specific and narrow spectrum agents will delay the selection of resistant strains
ABAC Therapeutics anticipates that the anti-infective treatments of the future will be like that of current cancer therapies, whereby novel highly-targeted drugs are used in the eligible population, applying fast companion diagnostics to identify responders.
This new strategy for the treatment of infectious diseases will, in addition to benefiting patients, respect the environment.
ABAC Therapeutics’ vision is not limited to discovering compounds to combat AMR. ABAC intends to lead a novel and disruptive paradigm, based on precision medicine, for the treatment of infectious diseases, including serious hospital infections, as well as infections that, without being severe, require treatment.
Aligned with this vision, ABAC is devoting significant resources to screen various compound collections to identify new molecules that meet the 4 innovation criteria established by the WHO:
- No cross-resistance with commercial antibiotic classes
- Novel chemical structure
- Novel target
- Novel mechanism of action
Domingo Gargallo-Viola
Innovation
ABAC Therapeutics is committed to disruptively innovating in products and in drug discovery strategy.
Looking for compounds with pathogen-specific or narrow spectrum of activity, to promote an ambitious paradigm shift. Aimed at replacing broad-spectrum compounds, ending empirical treatment of infections, and disseminating the use of diagnostic techniques.
ABAC Therapeutics has developed its proprietary Drug Discovery Platform PasNas, designed to identify «high quality leads», to produce candidates with the highest probability of succees in clinical development, derived from a more effective approach to characterize and prioritize Hit and Leads.
PasNas is a highly scalable and multiplexed platform that is adaptable to compounds of any chemical nature and can be applied against any target and bacterial species.