Basilea Pharmaceutica

Basilea Pharmaceutica Ltd. is a Switzerland-based biopharmaceutical company that was formed as a spin-off entity from the drug giant Hoffmann–La Roche in October 2000. Basilea is engaged in the development of antibacterial and antifungal agents to combat drug resistance.

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The company is based in Basel, Switzerland. It has subsidiaries in France (Basilea Pharmaceuticals SAS), Germany (Basilea Pharmaceuticals GmbH), Denmark (Basilea Pharmaceuticals A/S), the People's Republic of China (Basilea Pharmaceutica China Ltd), Spain (Basilea Pharmaceuticals Iberia SL), the United Kingdom (Basilea Pharmaceuticals Ltd.), and the United States of America (Basilea Pharmaceuticals Inc.)^[1]. According to stock filings, it had 196 employees as of June 2007^[2].

Basilea currently has no drugs being marketed. It has three investigational drugs in phase III clinical development: ceftobiprole, a cephalosporin antibiotic with activity against methicillin-resistant Staphylococcus aureus (being developed in cooperation with Johnson & Johnson), isavuconazole, a broad-spectrum triazole antifungal drug, and alitretinoin, an oral retinoid for the treatment of Chronic Hand Eczema.^[3]