- 2Apr, 2026
Author(s) Contagion Editorial Team TAXIS Pharmaceuticals Chief Scientific Officer Ajit Parhi, PhD, offers some insights on the disease burden, and an overview of his company’s pipeline around developing a therapy for this STI. April is sexually transmitted infection (STI) Awareness Month, and with it brings [...]
Clinical Leader: The Rise Of Antimicrobial Resistance And Strategic Research Imperatives For 2026
By Gregory G. Mario, MBA, president and CEO, TAXIS Pharmaceuticals The ground beneath our feet is shifting. The foundational promise of modern medicine — that bacterial infections are a solvable problem – is being severely tested by an accelerating crisis: antimicrobial resistance (AMR). 2025 brought [...]
Contagion Live: Addressing Resistance to Pathogens Like NDM-CRE Through the Lens of Antimicrobial Development
US infections caused by NDM-producing carbapenem-resistant Enterobacterales (NDM-CRE) increased by more than 460% from 2019 to 2023, according to a Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) analysis published in Annals of Internal Medicine. CDC cautions that this surge could raise overall carbapenem-resistant Enterobacterales (CRE) infections [...]
TAXIS Pharmaceuticals Responds to CDC Report on Surge in Antibiotic-Resistant Bacteria
September 25, 2025 — TAXIS Pharmaceuticals today issued a statement in response to a new report from the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC), published in the Annals of Internal Medicine on September 23. The CDC report highlights a dramatic increase in infections caused [...]
- 10Sep, 2025
Podcast Interview: The Bio Report: Overcoming Antibiotic Resistance Listen to the podcast here. Antimicrobial resistance is projected to kill up to 10 million people a year by 2050. One particular area of concern is drug-resistant gonorrhea, where existing therapies are being exhausted. Taxis Pharmaceuticals is [...]
- 8Sep, 2025
A century ago, antibiotics transformed medicine. What were once deadly infections suddenly became curable, ushering in an era where surgery, childbirth, and even everyday cuts carried far less risk. Unfortunately, that medical miracle is now under threat. Across the world, doctors and healthcare systems are [...]
- 8Sep, 2025
Antimicrobial resistance (AMR) has quickly become one of the most pressing health and economic challenges of our time, and it's creating an inflection point for biotech innovation and investment. With at least 1.27 million deaths attributed to AMR annually, the cost of inaction is clear. Beyond a moral obligation, investment in AMR is also a smart economic decision, and investors have begun disrupting the biotech market by supporting the momentum of the novel AMR solution pipeline.
