Cidara's Once-Weekly Antifungal Gets Phase III Boost From Mundipharma
Executive Summary
Mundipharma is to provide financial support and development expertise for Cidara’s Phase III clinical studies of its once-weekly echinocandin antifungal for serious infections, in return for ex-US and ex-Japanese marketing rights.
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