Fe Pharmaceuticals

02/23/2026

One of our highlights from last year was attending and presenting at the Innovations in Wound Healing Conference in December. We are grateful to Geoff Gurtner for the invitation.

07/23/2024

Big patent and team news today: our 3rd US patent on DIBI issued this month and Dr. Trisha Ang joined our team as VP of Research and Development. She is very experienced with DIBI having synthesized it and leading the manufacturing process optimization and being a co-inventor on this and other DIBI patents.

July 23, 2024, Redwood City, CA, USA – Fe Pharmaceuticals, a pioneering biotech company focused on innovative treatments for infectious diseases, is pleased to announce that the United States Patent and Trademark Office (USPTO) has issued U.S. Patent No. 12,024,490, titled "Polymeric Metal Chelati...

11/14/2023

Proud to join other exciting Canadian Life Science startups in Silicon Valley this week.

10/04/2023

Must watch film. What we are working to overcome at Fe Pharmaceuticals. Our product DIBI kills infections without antibiotics, synergizes with antibiotics, and protects antibiotics from emerging resistance.

From Tori, a college gymnast, who faced a once curable infection that escalated into a life-threatening crisis, to Kerry, battling relentless superbugs with ...

09/08/2023

Making the most of the World AMR Congress. Hundreds of professionals dedicated to combatting antimicrobial resistance, giving voice to the silent pandemic. Andrew Heaton, COO and Michael Weickert, CEO Fe Pharmaceuticals, Philadelphia, PA.

08/31/2023

Headed to World AMR Congress next week in Phili (Sept. 7-8). Antimicrobial resistance has a solution: DIBI, our antimicrobial polymer that is immune to resistance and when administered alongside an antibiotic, prevents resistance from emerging to the antibiotic as well. Come by and see our poster of results.

06/13/2023

Fe Pharmaceuticals is pleased to announce the appointment of Dr. Anne-Marie Duliege as Chair of the Board of Directors. She brings outstanding clinical leadership experience as Fe works towards entering clinical studies.

June 12, 2023, Redwood City, CA, USA- Fe Pharmaceuticals (Canada) and its US subsidiary, Fe Pharmaceuticals, announced today that Anne-Marie Duliege, has been elected as Chairperson of the Board of Directors of the company. CEO Michael Weickert relinquished that role to focus on financing the develo...

04/25/2023

We are delighted to announce that Fe Pharmaceuticals closed a SEED Investment and named Robert Klein to the Board of Directors. Bob Klein, the father of CIRM, the California Stem cell initiative, led the round and will be a Senior Advisor to the Board of Fe. Their interest is addressing major public health threats with new technologies and we could not be more excited to have them on our team.

April 25, 2023, Redwood City, CA, USA- Fe Pharmaceuticals has raised a SEED investment to continue developing DIBI, a non-toxic, iron-binding copolymer, as a potent, broad-spectrum, antimicrobial agent active against bacterial and fungal infections, including drug-resistant organisms and as a potent...

02/06/2023

Canada in the Valley Showcase - Participating Startup Spotlight Series

Genuine breakthroughs in infectious disease are rare but this is one. Fe Pharmaceuticals is developing DIBI, a non-toxic, iron-binding copolymer, as a potent (

11/19/2022

Today starts World Antimicrobial Awareness Week (18-24 November 2022). Antimicrobial resistance (AMR) occurs when bacteria, viruses, fungi and parasites change over time and no longer respond to medicines, making infections harder to treat and increasing the risk of disease spread, severe illness and death. As a result of drug resistance, antibiotics and other antimicrobial medicines become ineffective and infections become increasingly difficult or impossible to treat. Researchers estimated that AMR in bacteria caused an estimated 1.27 million deaths in 2019. Fe Pharmaceuticals just published research that showed the drug DIBI inhibits the formation of resistance to antibiotics when co-administered with antibiotics - a potential solution to this major and growing problem.

World Antimicrobial Awareness Week aims to increase awareness of global antimicrobial resistance (AMR) and to encourage best practices.