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Pfizer Acquires AZ’s Anti-infectives Assets

Includes Zavicefta, Merrem, Zinforo, and clinical assets aztreonam-avibactam (ATM-AVI) and CXL

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By: Kristin Brooks

Managing Editor, Contract Pharma

Pfizer has entered into an agreement with AstraZeneca to acquire the development and commercialization rights to its late-stage small molecule anti-infectives business, primarily outside the U.S. The agreement includes development and commercialization rights to the newly approved EU drug Zavicefta, marketed products Merrem/Meronem and Zinforo, and the clinical development assets aztreonam-avibactam (ATM-AVI) and CXL. Zavicefta specifically addresses multi-drug resistant Gram-negative infections...

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