Evotec SE has been awarded a $2.5 million grant from The Gates Foundation (GF) to support the development of next-generation treatment regimens for tuberculosis (TB). This is the second grant awarded to Evotec by the GF focused on evaluating new and improved TB therapies using the company’s translational platforms.

The new funding builds on an ongoing five-year partnership that has already generated standardized preclinical data used to select shorter, safer, and more effective TB drug combinations. Under the new grant, Evotec will further characterize promising regimens using its fully integrated TB platform to accelerate the development of transformative TB treatments.

Dr. Cord Dohrmann, Chief Scientific Officer of Evotec, commented: “We are honored to receive this new grant from GF, which reinforces our shared commitment to advancing better treatment options for tuberculosis. Through our ongoing partnership, we have made important contributions to the identification of promising new regimens, and this grant enables us to continue that work.”

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