Open Orphan #ORPH – Results from the world’s first COVID-19 Characterisation Study

Open Orphan (AIM: ORPH), a rapidly growing specialist contract research organisation (CRO) and world leader in testing infectious and respiratory disease products using human challenge clinical trials, announces the results from the world’s first COVID-19 characterisation study, which was a partnership between hVIVO, Imperial College London, the Vaccine Taskforce and Department of Health and Social […]

Open Orphan #ORPH – £5m Influenza human challenge study contract win

Open Orphan (AIM: ORPH), a rapidly growing specialist contract research organisation (CRO) and world leader in vaccine and antiviral testing using human challenge clinical trials, announces that hVIVO, a subsidiary of Open Orphan plc, has signed a £5m influenza human challenge study contract with a biotech company developing an antiviral drug for protection against respiratory […]

Open Orphan #ORPH – £5.1m RSV Human Challenge Study Contract Win

Open Orphan (AIM: ORPH), a rapidly growing specialist contract research organisation (CRO) and world leader in vaccine and antiviral testing using human challenge clinical trials , announces that hVIVO , a subsidiary of Open Orphan, has signed a £5.1m contract with a biopharmaceutical company to test its Investigational Medicinal Product (IMP) using hVIVO’s respiratory syncytial […]

#ORPH Open Orphan – £1.5m Contract renewal for Venn Life Sciences

Open Orphan (AIM: ORPH), a rapidly growing specialist contract research organisation (CRO) and world leader in vaccine and antiviral testing using human challenge clinical trials , announces that Venn Life Sciences (“Venn”), a subsidiary of Open Orphan, has signed a contract renewal with a major global pharmaceutical client worth £1.5m over two years. The renewed contract will commence in January 2022, with […]

Poolbeg Pharma #POLB – Exec Chairman Cathal Friel & CEO Jeremy Skillington talk to Alan Green

Poolbeg Pharma #POLB Exec Chairman Cathal Friel and CEO Jeremy Skillington talk to Alan Green about the company’s ‘capital light’ business model. We discuss the POLB 001 asset, spun out of Open Orphan #ORPH, data samples, the PredictViral and vaccine discovery platforms plus further pipeline products. Cathal discusses the company cash position, and Jeremy highlights […]

Yahoo Finance – How Open Orphan is testing vaccines through intentional infection

Open Orphan #ORPH Executive Chairman Cathal Friel joins Yahoo Finance Live to discuss how his company is testing vaccines through intentional infection. ….ANJALEE KHEMLANI: Right, yeah, I want to get into all the potential. But let’s walk back and talk about, because the last time we spoke, you were just getting into the COVID trial. So […]

Open Orphan #ORPH – Major year-on-year revenue growth and profitable H1 2021 performance following a year of turnaround and transition in 2020

Open Orphan (AIM: ORPH), a rapidly growing specialist contract research organisation (CRO) and a world leader in vaccine and antiviral testing using human challenge clinical trials, announces its unaudited interim results for the six months ended 30 June 2021. These results show a continued pattern of profitability from Q4 2020 to a firmly profitable position […]

Open Orphan #ORPH – £5.7m Influenza human challenge study contract win

Open Orphan (AIM: ORPH), a rapidly growing specialist clinical research organisation (CRO) and world leader in vaccine and antiviral testing using human challenge clinical trials, announces that hVIVO, a subsidiary of Open Orphan plc, has signed a £5.7m contract with a specialist biotechnology company developing therapeutics for respiratory viral infections, to test its antiviral product […]

Open Orphan #ORPH – Notice of Results, Analyst Briefing and Investor Presentation

Open Orphan (AIM: ORPH), a rapidly growing specialist contract research organisation (CRO) and world leader in vaccine and antiviral testing using human challenge clinical trials , announces that its interim results for the six-month period ended 30 June 2021 will be released on Monday, 20 September 2021. Analyst Briefing A briefing open to analysts will […]

Open Orphan #ORPH – £8.1m Asthma Human Challenge Study Contract Win

Open Orphan (AIM: ORPH), a rapidly growing specialist contract research organisation (CRO) and world leader in vaccine and antiviral testing using human challenge clinical trials, announces that hVIVO, a subsidiary of Open Orphan plc, has signed an £8.1m contract with a major global pharmaceutical company to test its inhaled human rhinovirus (hRV) antiviral product using […]