Cempra's Solithromycin Demonstrates Therapeutic Potential Beyond Anti-Bacterial Activity

Cempra, Inc. to Present Late-Breaker on Solithromycin's Anti-NASH Effects in an Animal Model at DDW 2014


CHAPEL HILL, N.C., April 3, 2014 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) -- Cempra, Inc. (Nasdaq:CEMP) today announced the presentation of a late-breaking abstract entitled "Anti-NASH Effects of Solithromycin in NASH-HCC Mouse Model," at 9:15 a.m. EDT, May 6, at Digestive Disease Week (DDW®) 2014 in Room S105A at McCormick Place in Chicago. The presentation will be included in the session entitled "Basic Late Breaking Abstract Session."

Additional information on the conference can be found on the DDW 2014 website: http://www.ddw.org/.

About Nonalcoholic Steatohepatitis (NASH)

Non-alcoholic steatohepatitis (NASH) is a progressive form of non-alcoholic fatty liver disease (NAFLD) where accumulation of excessive fat (steatosis) coexists with liver cell injury, inflammation and fibrosis, which eventually leads to cirrhosis and hepatocellular carcinoma. NASH affects between two and five percent of the U.S. population and there are no approved therapeutics for this condition. The only therapeutic approach is behavioral modification. It often starts as non-alcoholic fatty liver disease (NAFLD), suffered by about one quarter of the U.S. population, but often progresses to the more severe NASH in which inflammation or cellular ballooning, or apoptosis, occurs. NASH can lead to liver fibrosis, cirrhosis or primary liver cancer.

About Cempra, Inc.

Founded in 2006, Cempra, Inc. is a late clinical-stage pharmaceutical company focused on developing antibiotics to treat critical bacterial infections in patients in both acute and primary care settings. Cempra's two lead product candidates are currently in advanced clinical development. Solithromycin (CEM-101) is in two Phase 3 clinical trials for community-acquired bacterial pneumonia (CABP) and is licensed to strategic commercial partner Toyama Chemical Co., Ltd., a subsidiary of FUJIFILM Holdings Corporation, for certain exclusive rights in Japan. TAKSTA™ (CEM-102) is Cempra's second product candidate currently in a Phase 2 clinical trial for prosthetic joint infections. TAKSTA was recently granted orphan drug designation for this indication. Both product candidates seek to address the need for new treatments targeting drug-resistant bacterial infections in the hospital and in the community. The company also intends to use its series of proprietary lead compounds from its novel macrolide library for uses such as the treatment of chronic inflammatory diseases, endocrine diseases and gastric motility disorders. Additional information about Cempra can be found at www.cempra.com.

Please Note: This press release contains forward-looking statements regarding future events. These statements are just predictions and are subject to risks and uncertainties that could cause actual events or results to differ materially. These risks and uncertainties include, among others: the results, timing, costs and regulatory review of our studies and clinical trials; the results of studies of our product candidates conducted by others; our ability to obtain FDA approval of our product candidates; our dependence on the success of solithromycin and Taksta; our need to obtain additional funding and our ability to obtain future funding on acceptable terms; our anticipated capital expenditures and our estimates regarding our capital requirements; the possible impairment of, or inability to obtain, intellectual property rights and the costs of obtaining such rights from third parties; and innovation by our competitors. The reader is referred to the documents that we file from time to time with the Securities and Exchange Commission.



            

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