Neil Clark & Dr Bill Love of Destiny Pharma: World leading scientists to present landmark data on it's clinical asset NTCD-M3
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Neil Clark, CEO & Dr Bill Love, Chief Scientific Officer of Destiny Pharma #DEST explain the significance of world leading C. difficile scientists presenting landmark data on the ability of NTCD-M3 (one of its clinical assets) to colonise the gut after antibiotic administration at the prestigious Anaerobe 2022 Conference in Seattle, WA, US on Saturday, 30th July 2022.
Highlights
As previously reported, a Phase 2 clinical trial in patients suffering CDI demonstrated that administration of NTCD-M3 shortly after the use of antibiotics to treat the initial infection successfully reduced recurrence from 30% in placebo to 5% in treated patients. Patients received either vancomycin or metronidazole to treat the initial toxic C. difficile infection before receiving NTCD-M3 treatment.[1] Since the end of this trial, a new antibiotic, fidaxomicin, has been added to US clinical guidelines for treating CDI[2]. It is known that fidaxomicin3 resides for a longer period within the gut potentially inhibiting the colonisation by bacteria such as NTCD-M3. This latest study by the Microbiology Research Laboratory at the Edward Hines, Jr. VA Hospital in the US sought to address this question by monitoring the colonisation of NTCD-M3 in an established CDI model following administration of fidaxomicin.
In summary, this study conducted in the lab of the authors at the Edward Hines, Jr. VA Hospital, clearly demonstrated that NTCD-M3 was able to effectively colonise the gut following fidaxomicin administration indicating that NTCD-M3 would be effective in patients receiving this antibiotic as well as older antibiotics such as vancomycin and metronidazole.
About Destiny Pharma
Destiny Pharma is a clinical stage, innovative biotechnology company focused on the development of novel medicines that can prevent life-threatening infections. Its pipeline has novel microbiome-based biotherapeutics and XF drug clinical assets including NTCD-M3, a Phase 3 ready treatment for the prevention of C. difficile infection (CDI) recurrence which is the leading cause of hospital acquired infection in the US and XF-73 nasal gel, which has recently completed a positive Phase 2b clinical trial targeting the prevention of post-surgical staphylococcal hospital infections including MRSA. It is also co-developing SPOR-COV, a novel, biotherapeutic product for the prevention of COVID-19 and other viral respiratory infections and has earlier grant funded XF research projects.
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