Acurx Pharmaceuticals is a privately held clinical stage biopharmaceutical company focused on developing new antibiotics for difficult to treat infections.  Acurx's approach is to develop antibiotic candidates that could potentially block an entirely new molecular target,  DNA polymerase IIIC (pol IIIC) and its R&D pipeline includes early stage antibiotic candidates that target other gram positive bacteria  that are active parenterally, including Methicillin-Resistant Staphylococcus aureus (MRSA), Vancomycin-Resistant Enterococcus (VRE) and Penicillin-Resistant Streptococcus pneumoniae (PRSP)