Combating Antibiotic-Resistant Bacteria Biopharmaceutical Accelerator (CARB-X) is awarding Glyprovac LLC US$467,000 to develop a maternal vaccine that targets Escherichia coli, a bacterial species responsible for a large portion of neonatal sepsis infections.

Combating Antibiotic-Resistant Bacteria Biopharmaceutical Accelerator (CARB-X), led by Boston University, is awarding $1.2 million to the Andrew G. Myers Research Group at Harvard University to develop a series of enhanced oral antibiotics that directly target a range of antibiotic-resistant bacteria which cause serious lower respiratory tract and skin and soft tissue infections.

Parents Project Muscular Dystrophy (PPMD) has provided $500,000 in funding to Kinea Bio Inc. 

Myrobalan Therapeutics Inc. has been awarded a $400,000 grant from the ALS Association to support the advancement of its colony-stimulating factor 1 receptor (CSF-1R) inhibitor for the treatment of amyotrophic lateral sclerosis (ALS).

Acurastem Inc. has raised nearly $7 million in grant funding from the National Institutes of Health (NIH) and the Department of Defense (DoD) to advance research in amyotrophic lateral sclerosis (ALS) and frontotemporal dementia.

Vesper Bio ApS has been awarded a grant worth $873,000 by The Michael J. Fox Foundation for Parkinson’s Research (MJFF) to assess sortilin inhibition in Parkinson’s disease.

Combating Antibiotic-Resistant Bacteria Biopharmaceutical Accelerator (CARB-X) is awarding Syntiron US$1.7 million to develop a maternal vaccine that targets Escherichia coli and Klebsiella pneumoniae, two bacterial species that cause a large portion of neonatal sepsis infections.

Intravacc BV has been awarded funding for up to $633,000 from CARB-X (Combating Antibiotic-Resistant Bacteria Biopharmaceutical Accelerator) for the development of a preventive vaccine against Neisseria gonorrhoeae (NG), the bacterium that causes gonorrhea.

Sail Biomedicines Inc. has received two grants from the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation to advance the company's Endless RNA (eRNA) platform to develop secreted monoclonal antibodies and vaccines for malaria.