#ORPH Open Orphan – £5m RSV human challenge study contract win
Open Orphan plc (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 that hVIVO, a subsidiary of Open Orphan, has signed a £5m respiratory syncytial virus (“RSV”) human challenge study contract with a European biotechnology company (“European biotech”) […]
Open Orphan #ORPH – Positive Phase 1 study results published in The Lancet
Monday 15th June, 2020 Positive results from the Phase I study of the AGS-v vaccine developed by an Open Orphan joint venture, Imutex Limited, have been published in the peer reviewed journal The Lancet AGS-v is a first-in-class mosquito saliva, standalone, vaccine candidate designed to protect against mosquito-borne diseases carried in the saliva such as Zika, Malaria, […]
Experts seek approval for COVID-19 trials – China Daily
By ANGUS McNEICE in London Medical community divided on issue of exposing humans to deadly virus A laboratory in the United Kingdom is hoping to become the first in the world to intentionally infect volunteers with novel coronavirus in order to test the efficacy of COVID-19 vaccines. Half of the participants in these so-called human […]
Daily Mirror – Coronavirus: Inside UK clinic where volunteers get paid up to £4,000 to be infected in race to find vaccine
by Rhian Lubin EXCLUSIVE: Infecting volunteers so they can be tested could help stop the spread of Covid-19 – so now 24 triallists face 14 days of solitary confinement and we took a look inside. As I lie in a hospital bed in a sterile clinic room, a nurse in blue scrubs with a full […]
Shares Magazine Spotlight – Open Orphan lining up for coronavirus fight
BRR Media – Open Orphan #ORPH introduces Professor John Oxford
BRR Media introduces Open Orphan’s Professor John Oxford, consultant to the company and Virology expert. He discusses virology, and looks at recent virus epidemics, including influenza, AIDS, SARS and now Coronavirus. He explains how the hHIVO quarantine unit could play a key role in defeating Coronavirus…”This group (Open Orphan) is perfectly positioned, probably like no […]