Mundipharma and Cidara Therapeutics Inc. announced that the Medicines and Healthcare Products Regulatory Agency (MHRA) in the UK has granted rezafungin Promising Innovative Medicine (PIM) designation for the treatment of invasive candidiasis. Invasive candidiasis is a severe, life-threatening systemic Candida infection of the bloodstream and/or deep/visceral tissues. A PIM designation is a pre-requisite for application to the UK's Early Access to Medicines Scheme (EAMS).

This scheme aims to give patients with life threatening or seriously debilitating conditions such as invasive candidiasis, access to medicines that do not yet have a marketing authorisation. Mundipharma and Cidara plan to submit an EAMS application for rezafungin in third quarter of 2022.