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Open Orphan PLC #ORPH – Venn Life Sciences contract wins
Open Orphan plc (ORPH), a rapidly growing specialist CRO pharmaceutical services company which is the world leader in the testing of vaccines and antivirals using human challenge clinical trials is pleased to announce its subsidiary Venn Life Sciences (“Venn”) has been awarded two new contracts.
The first contract, which will commence immediately, is a COVID-19 study for a European pharmaceutical company which involves 200 patients in 50 sites across 5 countries around the world. Venn’s Paris team will manage the randomisation and supply management for this randomised, double-blind, placebo-controlled Phase 2 Clinical Trial to evaluate the safety and efficacy of a combination treatment of two drugs, and the best supportive care for patients with moderate and severe COVID-19 in a hospitalised setting.
Venn’s team based in the Breda office, in the Netherlands has also signed a contract with a European pharmaceutical company. The contract will see Venn assist with project management, design and implementation of new processes related to clinical development and use its expertise to deliver process improvement. The contract, which starts immediately, will run until December 2021 delivering significant revenues for Venn.
This contract builds on Venn’s existing relationship with this European pharmaceutical company whom Venn currently provides a variety of services to including IMPD writing, regulatory briefing book writing, preclinical and clinical consultancy.
Cathal Friel, Executive Chairman, Open Orphan, said:
“As we come towards the end of 2020, it’s wonderful to see all the elements of the Open Orphan business are delivering substantial revenues and both new contract wins and renewal of existing long-term customer contracts. The merger and integration of Open Orphan, Venn and hVIVO is very much now complete, and having become profitable in Q4 2020, we now have a very valuable, fast growing and secure business on our hands. Both Venn and hVIVO are converting their substantial pipeline of work whilst providing a high-quality service to their customers. The Paris team’s contract is a further demonstration of our work in the fight against COVID-19 and the contract win by our Dutch Breda team shows how we continue to generate repeat business through our expertise.
I am very excited by the momentum in the business and look forward to providing further updates in the weeks and months ahead of what is going to be a very exciting 2021″.
ENDS
Interested in becoming a volunteer?
If you are interested in being contacted and provided with details about future COVID-19 human challenge study research, please leave your contact details at www.UKCovidChallenge.com .
hVIVO recruits many of its volunteers for its challenge study clinical trials through its dedicated volunteer recruitment website, www.flucamp.com. hVIVO welcomes volunteers to take part in our clinical trials under expertly supervised conditions, to further medical research, and help us to take the understanding of respiratory illnesses to a new level. Volunteers are central to the work that we do; our studies focus on testing new treatments on real people, in a safe, controlled, clinical environment.
Further details on all aspects of our volunteer programs including testimonials from previous volunteers can be found at www.flucamp.com.
For further information please contact
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Open Orphan plc |
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Cathal Friel, Executive Chairman |
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Arden Partners plc (Nominated Adviser and Joint Broker) |
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John Llewellyn-Lloyd / Benjamin Cryer / Dan Gee-Summons |
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finnCap plc (Joint Broker) |
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Geoff Nash / James Thompson/ Richard Chambers |
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Davy (Euronext Growth Adviser and Joint Broker) |
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Anthony Farrell |
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Camarco (Financial PR) |
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Tom Huddart / Hugo Liddy |
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#ORPH @OpenOrphanplc subsidiary @VennLifeSciences contract wins
~ The first contract is a #COVID19 Phase 2 Clinical trial involving 200 patients in 50 sites across 5 countries.
~ The second contract will see #Venn assist a project related to clinical development, delivering significant revenues and running until Dec 2021.
~ Cathal Friel “I am very excited by the momentum in the business and look forward to providing further updates”
#pharma #testing #placebo
Open Orphan PLC #ORPH – Venn Life Sciences contract wins (branduk.net)
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~ COVID19 Phase 2 Clinical trial involving 200 patients
~ Venn to assist clinical development project, delivering significant revenue
Most people try to avoid Covid-19. But thousands are signing up to be deliberately exposed – CNN
By Mick Krever, Phil Black and Cristiana Moisescu,
London (CNN) – As most of us obsess with avoiding Covid-19 at all costs, a rapidly growing group of people around the world say they are prepared to deliberately take on the virus.
Tens of thousands of people have signed up to a campaign by a group called 1 Day Sooner to take an experimental vaccine candidate and then face coronavirus in a controlled setting.
Among them is Estefania Hidalgo, 32, a photography student in Bristol, England, who works at a gas station to pay the bills.
“I do night shifts there, and it can be very lonely,” she recalled on a sunny day near her home.
Passing those long lockdown hours with just podcasts to keep her company, she describes discovering the challenge trial movement — and hearing volunteers’ motivations — as a revelatory moment.
“I was shaken,” she said. “No one should be left behind. Old people, poor people, people of color. Everyone just deserves to be healthy.”
“This was a way for me to take back control of the situation, to feel like I was in a less hopeless place, and a less hopeless world, and be like, OK, I can do this. To make it better, I chose not to be in fear.”
So-called human challenge trials, while sometimes controversial, are nothing new. They have been used for cholera, typhoid, malaria, and even the common cold. But unlike for those diseases, we do not yet have a completely effective treatment for Covid-19, should the experimental vaccine fail.
Volunteers in challenge trials are typically compensated for their time and participation, experts say, but organizers must be careful not to pay an amount that could edge on coercive. Critics also say that challenge trials have limited use because the young, healthy people who take part don’t represent the broader population.
Full CNN article here