Larry G. Edwards

La Jolla Pharmaceutical Co. operates as a biopharmaceutical company. It engages in the discovery, development and commercialization of therapies intended to improve outcomes in patients suffering from life-threatening diseases. Its products portfolio include GIAPREZA and XERAVA. The company was founded in 1989 and is headquartered in San Diego, CA.

Cubist Pharmaceuticals LLC operates as a biopharmaceutical company. It focuses on the research, development and commercialization of pharmaceutical products. The company was founded in 1992 and is headquartered in Lexington, MA.

Tetraphase Pharmaceuticals, Inc. is engaged in the development and production of novel tetracyclines for serious and life-threatening bacterial infections. It also develops eravacycline, a synthetic fluorocycline, as an intravenous and oral antibiotic for use as a first-line empiric monotherapy for the treatment of resistant and multi-drug-resistant infections. The company was founded on July 7, 2006 and is headquartered in Waltham, MA.

Part of Innoviva, Inc., La Jolla Pharmaceutical II BV provides healthcare services. The private company is based in Amsterdam, Netherlands.

Utility Therapeutics Ltd. is a British company that has exclusive US commercial rights to two European-approved antibiotics, mecillinam and an oral prodrug of mecillinam, for the treatment of urinary tract infections (UTI). The private company is based in Altrincham, UK and was founded in 2018 by Rasmus Toft-Kehler, Morten Otto Alexander Sommer, Peter Aksel Villadsen. Mecillinam is being developed as a first-line therapy for complicated UTI in the hospital setting, while the oral prodrug is being developed for uncomplicated UTI. The company has received the FDA's Qualified Infectious Disease Product (QIDP) designation for the treatment of UTI. Utility Therapeutics is committed to developing antibiotics that meet urgent treatment needs for multi-drug resistant infections.

Part of Santo Holding (Deutschland) GmbH, Aicuris Anti-Infective Cures AG aims to discover, develop, and deliver innovative, anti-viral drugs to immunocompromised patients aiming to prevent severe condition and life-threatening diseases. The private company is based in Wuppertal, Germany. Aicuris has developed a commercial drug as well as pipeline of clinical-stage and pre-clinical anti-viral candidates. Its lead product Prevymis® (letermovir), a first-in-class non-nucleoside cytomegalovirus (CMV) inhibitor, was licensed to MSD and is commercialized for the prevention of human CMV infections in immunocompromised patients who underwent an allogeneic hematopoietic stem cell transplantation or kidney transplantation. Aicuris wholly owned product candidate, Pritelivir, targeting resistant herpes simplex virus (HSV) infections in immunocompromised patients, is in phase 3 clinical development. The German company was founded in 2006 by Helga Rübsamen-Schaeff. Larry G. Edwards has been the CEO of the company since 2023.

Part of Innoviva, Inc., La Jolla Pharma LLC is a pharmaceutical company that manufactures pharmaceutical products. The private company is based in Dover, DE.

Clarametyx Biosciences, Inc. operates as a biotechnology company. It develops a dynamic pipeline of immune-enabling therapies and vaccines for chronic and recurrent bacterial infections. The company was founded by Michael Triplett, Peter G. Kleinhenz, Juliana Woda, and Charles McOsker and is headquartered in Columbus, OH.