Basilea announces start of first‑in‑human study of novel antibiotic BAL2420

Allschwil, Switzerland, March 23, 2026 Basilea Pharmaceutica Ltd, Allschwil (SIX: BSLN), a commercial-stage biopharmaceutical company committed to meeting the needs of patients with severe bacterial and fungal infections, announced today the dosing of the first healthy volunteer in the first-in-human phase 1 study of BAL2420, evaluating the safety, tolerability and pharmacokinetics of this lipopolysaccharide transport protein A (LptA) inhibitor. BAL2420 belongs to a novel class of antibiotics.