Company Profile for Optimer Pharmaceuticals, Inc.

--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Optimer Pharmaceuticals, Inc. a biopharmaceutical company focused on discovering, developing and commercializing innovative anti-infective products. Our initial development efforts address products that treat gastrointestinal infections or GI infections and related diseases where current therapies have limitations, including diminished efficacy, serious adverse side effects, drug-to-drug interactions, difficult patient compliance and bacterial resistance. We currently have two late-stage anti-infective product candidates, OPT-80 (PAR-101), formerly known as Difimicin, and Prulifloxacin. OPT-80 our lead product candidate, is an antibiotic currently in a Phase 3 registration trial for the treatment of Clostridium difficile-associated diarrhea, or CDAD, the most common nosocomial, or hospital-acquired, diarrhea. Prulifloxacin is an antibiotic currently in two Phase 3 trials for the treatment of travelers’ diarrhea, a form of infectious diarrhea. We are developing additional product candidates using our proprietary technology, including our Optimer One-Pot Synthesis, or OPopS, drug discovery platform.