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Optimer Pharmaceuticals

Optimer's core competence includes the development of innovative drugs for treating diseases that currently have no satisfactory therapy. These include antibiotics for drug-resistant bacterial infections, a cancer vaccine, and "disease-modifying" drugs for osteoarthritis. In the near term Optimer plans to bring in significant revenues through sponsored research, joint ventures, government grants, and license royalties.Optimer Pharmaceuticals, Inc. was founded and registered as a Delaware Corporation in 1998. The Company has licensed its technologies and therapeutic targets from The Scripps Research Institute and The Memorial Sloan-Kettering Cancer Center. These licenses form the core of Optimer's carbohydrate technologies.
Under the leadership of its three founding scientists Michael Chang, Ph.D. (Optimer Pharmaceutical's President and CEO), Professor Chi-Huey Wong of Scripps Research Institute and Professor Samuel Danishefsky of Memorial Sloan-Kettering Cancer Center, the company has already assembled one of the best research and development teams in the field of carbohydrate technology.
The Company headquarters and R&D laboratory are located in San Diego, California, less than ten minutes away from The Scripps Research Institute. Optimer also has two wholly owned subsidiary, Optimer Singapore Pte Ltd., located in Singapore, and Optimer Taiwan, located in Taipei, Taiwan


Contact Details:
10110 Sorrento Valley Rd, Suite C
San Diego
California
92121
United States of America
Tel:(858) 909-0736
Fax:858.909.0737
Email:info@optimerpharma.com
WWW:

www.optimerpharma.com/




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Recent Publications by Optimer Pharmaceuticals:

Safety, tolerance, and pharmacokinetic studies of OPT-80 in healthy volunteers following single and multiple oral doses.
Current therapies for Clostridium difficile infection (CDI) are encumbered...
4th July, 2008
Optimer Pharmaceuticals, Inc., 10110 Sorrento Valley Road, San Diego, CA Antimicrob Agents Chemother. 2008 Apr;52(4):1391-5. Epub 2008 Feb 11.
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Structure-activity relationships of bivalent aminoglycosides and evaluation of their microbiological activities.
A library of 4,5- and 4,6-linked bivalent aminoglycoside (AMG) antibiotics...
19th August, 2005
Department of Chemistry, Optimer Pharmaceuticals, Inc., 10110 Sorrento Bioorg Med Chem Lett. 2005 Apr 15;15(8):2123-8.
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Synthesis and biological activity of new 5-O-sugar modified ketolide and 2-fluoro-ketolide antibiotics.
A series of new triazole-containing ketolides and 2-fluoro-ketolides in...
6th July, 2005
Department of Chemistry, Optimer Pharmaceuticals, Inc., 10110 Sorrento Bioorg Med Chem Lett. 2005 Mar 1;15(5):1307-10.
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Glyco-optimization of aminoglycosides: new aminoglycosides as novel anti-infective agents.
Glyco-optimization (OPopS) of aminoglycosides has been performed by...
8th February, 2005
Department of Chemistry, Optimer Pharmaceuticals, Inc., 10110 Sorrento Bioorg Med Chem Lett. 2004 Jul 16;14(14):3733-8.
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Press Releases on Optimer Pharmaceuticals:

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Optimer Pharmaceuticals to Present at the 21st Annual Piper Jaffray Health Care Conference 24th November, 2009 Optimer Pharmaceuticals, Inc.
SAN DIEGO, Nov. 24 /PRNewswire-FirstCall/ -- Optimer Pharmaceuticals, Inc. (Nasdaq: OPTR) is scheduled to present at the 21st Annual Piper Jaffray Health Care Conference at The New York Palace in New
Optimer Pharmaceuticals Completes Enrollment in Second Fidaxomicin Phase 3 Clinical Trial in Patients With Clostridium difficile Infection 12th November, 2009 Optimer Pharmaceuticals, Inc.
SAN DIEGO, Nov. 12 /PRNewswire-FirstCall/ -- Optimer Pharmaceuticals, Inc. (Nasdaq: OPTR) today announced that it has completed enrollment in the second of two pivotal Phase 3 clinical trials
Optimer Pharmaceuticals Reports Third Quarter 2009 Financial Results 3rd November, 2009 Optimer Pharmaceuticals, Inc.
-- Optimer recently entered into a number of transactions involving OBI, the Company's Taiwan subsidiary, to provide OBI with funding for the development of two of Optimer
Optimer Pharmaceuticals to Present at November 2009 Investor Conferences 26th October, 2009 Optimer Pharmaceuticals, Inc.
-- Lazard Capital Markets 6th Annual Healthcare Conference on Tuesday, November 17, 2009 at 10:25 a.m. Eastern Time at the St. Regis in New York City. (Logo: http://www.newscom
Optimer Pharmaceuticals Announces Presentations of Additional Data From the Fidaxomicin North American Phase 3 Trial at Upcoming IDSA Annual Meeting 19th October, 2009 Optimer Pharmaceuticals, Inc.
SAN DIEGO, Oct. 19 /PRNewswire-FirstCall/ -- Optimer Pharmaceuticals, Inc. (Nasdaq: OPTR) announced that additional data related to fidaxomicin, the Company's lead developmental product candidate

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Optimer Pharmaceuticals Patents:

US Patent No.Title
7601695 Antibacterial agents
7507564 Tiacumicin production
7414885 Method and apparatus for reading data from a ferromagnetic memory cell
7378508 Polymorphic crystalline forms of tiacumicin B

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