{"id":16846,"date":"2010-01-04T14:08:16","date_gmt":"2010-01-04T19:08:16","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/home.bates.edu\/?p=16846"},"modified":"2018-06-04T09:23:18","modified_gmt":"2018-06-04T13:23:18","slug":"boston-globe-cubist-bonney","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.bates.edu\/news\/2010\/01\/04\/boston-globe-cubist-bonney\/","title":{"rendered":"The Boston Globe reports on Cubist&#039;s move to purchase biotech company"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><em>The Boston Globe<\/em> reports that Cubist Pharmaceuticals Inc., whose chief executive and president is Michael Bonney &#8217;80, will spend up to $402.5 million to buy Calixa Therapeutics of San Diego, Calif., a company that is developing an antibiotic to fight so-called superbugs. &#8220;It\u2019s right in our sweet spot, right in our strike zone,\u2019\u2019 Bonney told the paper. Cubist also markets an antibiotic, Cubicin, to battle infections caused by the methicillin-resistant Staphylococcus aureus (MRSA) bacteria. <a href=\"http:\/\/www.boston.com\/business\/healthcare\/articles\/2009\/12\/14\/lexington_based_cubist_to_buy_calixa_therapeutics_in_potential_4025m_deal\/\">View story from <em>The Boston Globe<\/em>, Dec. 14, 2009.<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Boston Globe reports that Cubist Pharmaceuticals Inc., whose chief executive and&hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":104,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_hide_ai_chatbot":false,"_ai_chatbot_style":"","associated_faculty":[],"_Page_Specific_Css":"","_bates_restrict_mod":false,"_table_of_contents_display":false,"_table_of_contents_location":"","_table_of_contents_disableSticky":false,"_is_featured":false,"footnotes":"","_bates_seo_meta_description":"","_bates_seo_block_robots":false,"_bates_seo_sharing_image_id":0,"_bates_seo_sharing_image_twitter_id":0,"_bates_seo_share_title":"","_bates_seo_canonical_overwrite":"","_bates_seo_twitter_template":""},"categories":[7,162,11009],"tags":[11051,1891,11302,11047,4110,5825],"class_list":["post-16846","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-alumni","category-health-medicine","category-the-college","tag-bates-in-the-news","tag-business","tag-business-and-law","tag-finance","tag-healthcare","tag-medicine"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bates.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16846","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bates.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bates.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bates.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/104"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bates.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=16846"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.bates.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16846\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":93244,"href":"https:\/\/www.bates.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16846\/revisions\/93244"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bates.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=16846"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bates.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=16846"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bates.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=16846"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}