Matinas BioPharma reports treatment of patient with mucor infection with MAT2203

Matinas BioPharma Holdings announces the recent treatment of a 22-year-old male with polymicrobial necrotizing fasciitis that involved drug-resistant Lichtheimia, an angio-invasive species of the fungus Mucorales. This patient was treated at New York Presbyterian/Weill Cornell Medical Center and was discharged after just six weeks of treatment with MAT2203, Matinas’ oral formulation of the potent antifungal amphotericin B. The patient was treated under Matinas’ Compassionate/ Expanded Use Access Program by Sharan Yadav, MD, Infectious Disease Fellow. A total of 24 patients are currently receiving or have completed treatment with MAT2203 under the Compassionate/Expanded Use Access Program, and four additional cases are awaiting submission and/or FDA approval. In each instance, the patient was not responding to azole therapy, was unable to receive azole therapy due to drug/drug interactions or was unable to tolerate IV-amphotericin B for an appropriate treatment duration due to toxicity. In all patients who experienced serious renal toxicity while receiving IV-amphotericin B who were subsequently treated with MAT2203, renal toxicity was reversed, and renal function returned to baseline.