General Info

Paratek Pharmaceuticals is a privately held biopharmaceutical company, which is engaged in the discovery and commercialization of new therapeutics that treat life-threatening infectious and other serious diseases. The company s mission at its founding was to overcome the major worldwide problem of bacterial resistance through the application of its proprietary technologies. Paratek was founded in 1996 by Dr. Stuart B. Levy, professor at Tufts University School of Medicine, and by Dr. Walter Gilbert, a Nobel Prize-winning professor emeritus at Harvard University. The company utilizes two scientific platforms to develop multiple products to combat, cure and prevent infectious and other serious diseases. Paratek Pharmaceuticals is headquartered in Boston.