Spero Therapeutics

Spero Therapeutics, Inc. is a clinical-stage biopharmaceutical company, which focuses on identifying, developing, and commercializing treatments involving bacterial infections, including multi-drug resistant bacterial infections, and rare diseases Its pipeline product candidates include Tebipenem HBr, SPR720, and SPR206. The company is headquartered in Cambridge, Massachusetts and currently employs 32 full-time employees. The company went IPO on 2017-11-02. The firm is focused on identifying and developing novel treatments for rare diseases and diseases caused by multi-drug resistant (MDR) bacterial infections with unmet need. Its product candidate SPR720 is an investigational, chemically stable phosphate ester prodrug that is converted in vivo to SPR719 for the treatment of nontuberculous mycobacterial (NTM) pulmonary disease. Its clinical stage product candidate, tebipenem HBr is an investigational oral carbapenem antibiotic being developed for the treatment of complicated urinary tract infections (cUTIs) including acute pyelonephritis (AP) to help patients potentially reduce duration of in-patient therapy.