Ceragenix Pharmaceuticals, Inc. Compound Shows Promise for Treating Lethal Cystic Fibrosis Infections

DENVER--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Ceragenix Pharmaceuticals, Inc. (OTCBB:CGXP), a biopharmaceutical company focused on infectious disease and dermatology, today announced that researchers at the University of Pennsylvania led by Dr. Paul Janmey and Dr. Robert Bucki, in collaboration with Dr. Paul B. Savage of Brigham Young University, have demonstrated in a series of in vitro experiments that an investigational drug compound known as CSA-13 shows promise as a potential therapy to treat multidrug resistant Pseudomonas aeuroginosa infections which are a leading cause of morbidity and mortality in patients with cystic fibrosis. The research appears ahead of print in an advanced online publication of the Journal of Antimicrobial Chemotherapy, the official journal of the British Society for Antimicrobial Chemotherapy.

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