60° Pharmaceuticals (60P)—a growth-oriented specialty pharmaceutical company—is putting cutting-edge biological science and applied research to use in furthering therapies for the prevention and treatment of infectious diseases. Currently 60P’s pipeline covers promising clinical development programs for COVID-19, babesiosis, dengue and other viral illnesses.
By leveraging its successful completion of clinical development and FDA approval of ARAKODA® (tafenoquine) for malaria prevention and exclusive research and licensing agreements with the U. S. Army, and with promising new non-clinical and clinical data in hand, 60P is seeking to evaluate the utility of tafenoquine for additional indications.
The ARAKODA regimen of tafenoquine has exhibited positive Phase II study data in patients with mild-moderate COVID-19 disease.* Trial data has been published in New Microbes and New Infections, a peer-reviewed, open-access journal.
Tafenoquine exhibits useful activity in animal models of babesiosis and according to case reports may have clinical utility in treatment of drug-resistant strains.*
In vitro and in vivo studies demonstrate that tafenoquine is effective for treatment and prevention of fungi such as Pneumocystis and yeasts at concentrations/doses that are clinically relevant.1,2* Pneumocystis remains an important pathogen in organ transplant patients for whom the current standard of care is sub-optimal in some patient segments.3 Many infections caused by yeasts such as Candida auris are refractory to standard of care medications such as azoles, amphotericin B, and echinocandins.2
60P is planning a clinical development campaign for the repositioning of celgosivir, a host-targeted glucosidase inhibitor that was developed separately by other sponsors for HIV and hepatitis C4, but never approved by regulators. Similar to other dengue antivirals, celgosivir has shown diminished activity in curing dengue infection in animal models when administered after animals become symptomatic. However, this issue was addressed by administering the same dose split into four doses per day rather than one or two doses per daty.5 Preliminary data suggest celgosivir may inhibit the replication of the virus that causes COVID-19 (SARS-CoV-2) in cell culture, the RSV virus in cell culture, and may protect the lungs from RSV infection in animals.*
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Cases and 1 Million+ deaths in the U.S. from COVID-19 infections
Annual deaths from malaria globally
Travelers to malaria endemic regions per annum
Annual dengue infections globally
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