Cubist Pharmaceuticals

Biotech · Acquired

Daptomycin and novel antibiotics for drug-resistant bacterial infections

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Grants
$5.7M
21 awards
Sector median: 1
Raised
—
No Form D on record
Contracts
—
No federal contracts on record
Patents
40
20 granted · 20 pending
Sector median: 2

Capital Timeline

Federal above the line · equity below · node area scaled to amount
Capital and federal award history
DateEventSourceAmount
Federal grant· 1 of 5 same dayDepartment of Health and Human Services · Phase II · Inhibiting Pneumocystis Carinii's Growth--a New Therapy$382,084
Federal grant· 2 of 5 same dayDepartment of Health and Human Services · Phase I · Inhibiting Pneumocystis Carinii Growth--a New Therapy$100,000
Federal grant· 3 of 5 same dayDepartment of Health and Human Services · Phase II · Inhibiting Pneumocystis Carinii's Growth--a New Therapy$367,916
Federal grant· 4 of 5 same dayDepartment of Health and Human Services · Phase II · Novel Drug Development Strategy For M Tuberculosis$275,601
Federal grant· 5 of 5 same dayDepartment of Health and Human Services · Phase I · Novel Drug Development Strategy For M Tuberculosis$100,000
Federal grantDepartment of Health and Human Services · Phase I · Development Of New Antibiotics$100,000
Federal grant· 1 of 3 same dayDepartment of Health and Human Services · Phase I · Development Of A Screen For Bacterial Rnase P Inhibitors$100,000
Federal grant· 2 of 3 same dayDepartment of Health and Human Services · Phase II · Bacterial Ribonuclease P Inhibitors As Novel Antibiotics$508,077
Federal grant· 3 of 3 same dayDepartment of Health and Human Services · Phase II · Bacterial Ribonuclease P Inhibitors As Novel Antibiotics$424,463
Federal grantDepartment of Health and Human Services · Phase I · Development Of A Novel Target For Antimicrobial Drug$100,000
Federal grant· 1 of 3 same dayDepartment of Health and Human Services · Phase II · Development of SecA as an Antimicrobial Target$480,478
Federal grant· 2 of 3 same dayDepartment of Health and Human Services · Phase I · Development Of Seca For Antimicrobial Drug Discovery$100,000
Federal grant· 3 of 3 same dayDepartment of Health and Human Services · Phase II · Development of SecA as an Antimicrobial Target$530,161
Federal grant· 1 of 2 same dayDepartment of Health and Human Services · Phase I · A Novel Target-based Drug Development Program$119,941
Federal grant· 2 of 2 same dayDepartment of Health and Human Services · Phase I · Novel Targets In A Drug Development Program$99,800
Federal grantDepartment of Health and Human Services · Phase I · Inhibitors of KD08-Phosphate Synthase as Antibiotics$208,500
Federal grantDepartment of Health and Human Services · Phase I · Inhibitors of Bacterial Undecaprenyl DiphosphateSynthase$258,814
Federal grant· 1 of 3 same dayDepartment of Health and Human Services · Phase I · Modification of daptomycin by combinatorial biosynthesis$258,205
Federal grant· 2 of 3 same dayDepartment of Health and Human Services · Phase II · Modification of Daptomycin by Combinatorial Biosynthesis$500,000
Federal grant· 3 of 3 same dayDepartment of Health and Human Services · Phase II · Modification of Daptomycin by Combinatorial Biosynthesis$400,000
Federal grantDepartment of Health and Human Services · Phase I · Structure activity relationships around lipopeptides$236,300
Federal grant · SBIR/STTR

Peer position

Biotech · 4373 companies · ranked on federal contract value
Biotech companies ranked by federal contract value
#CompanyContractsDisclosed equity
1673Shire Pharmaceuticals——
1674PHOTOCHEM TECHNOLOGIES, LLC——
1675Deep Creek Pharma, LLC——
1676Cubist Pharmaceuticals——
1677Orphi Therapeutics Inc——
1678Myovant Sciences——
1679ROKE BIOTECHNOLOGIES LLC——

Ranked on federal contract value rather than capital raised. The equity column is the comparison worth making — companies at the same procurement position often sit at very different points in their funding history.

Patents

USPTO · 20 granted of 40

Regulatory activity · Biotech

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