Cempra

Founded in 2006, Cempra Pharmaceuticals, Inc., is a privately-held biotechnology company that discovers and develops well-differentiated medicines to cure bacterial infections and improve the quality of life for those with chronic illnesses. The company strives to meet urgent and rapidly expanding needs to treat patients with drug-resistant bacterial infections. Cempra balances near-term product development opportunities, including the macrolide CEM-101, while investing in future products from new technologies to derive the next generation of antibiotics. Cempra is utilizing its proprietary chemistry technology to develop macrolides without antibacterial activity for these non-antibiotic uses.