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Morning Crumbs/All, yeah I guess I was, was really trying to remind us of the experience she has brought with her from Immunacore I can only imagine how delighted Lindy was to welcome her on board.
Have a good day, another very wet one here, here is to a better week..................
I think you might be confusing techs and platforms, easily done here with there being so much scientifically going on... Paston will be more involved with the BioNTech collab and TCRs than anything to do with the MaBs scancell brought in J Chua for her expertise on the MaBs (Avidimab) ...Paston does, however, appear now on one scientific poster around moditope and use of algorithms 'https://www.scancell.co.uk/Data/Sites/1/media/publications/posters/paris-2019-peptide-selection-final.pdf
Without a doubt a great addition to the team......Be interesting to see Immunocore IPO and market value attached to them ...another company I consider much less attractive than scancell but managed to raise £££'s from inestors and pharma
Bermudashorts,
In that field for sure, this article from Fierce Biotech last January..................
Samantha Paston has ended her long association with Immunocore to take up the head of research position at Scancell. Paston’s appointment is part of a broader effort by Scancell to add experience as it steps up its immunotherapy development activities.
Scancell is developing anticancer candidates based on two immunotherapy platforms, ImmunoBody and Moditope. The pipeline of ImmunoBody vaccines, led by clinical-phase NY-ESO-1 asset SCIB1, has advanced furthest, but the other platform has attracted attention and a T-cell receptor (TCR) deal with BioNTech.
With Scancell gearing up for trials and stepping up its TCR activities, the British biotech has added Paston to its team. Paston joined Avidex, the company that became Immunocore via an acquisition and spinout, straight after earning her doctorate in 2006 and stayed on throughout the early changes and more recent upheavals.
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The upshot is that Paston has worked at Immunocore since it was founded in 2008. Having started out as a senior research scientist, Paston went on to lead the T cell cloning and cell biology groups during her 11 years at the TCR specialist. Paston will now apply this experience to the emerging range of R&D tasks facing Scancell.
"Samantha will be invaluable in immunological design of the upcoming trials and spearheading the new TCR therapeutics,”
Lindy Durrant, Scancell’s founder and chief scientific officer, said in a statement. Paston will report directly to Durrant.
Scancell revealed news of Paston’s appointment alongside details of its new head of manufacturing. Adrian Parry, formerly head of small molecule CMC at Mereo BioPharma, has taken up the post, giving Scancell an employee with experience managing outsourced GMP production of clinical trial materials at a time when its manufacturing needs are growing.
Exactly that work? Well no, as I added...................Absolutely Rats, surprises me that a key member of Immunacores Research can leave the company and set up elsewhere with a Platform that was being developed with them. I thought there was something called Patents that would make that very unstraightforward.
Chelsea,
Are you thinking that Samantha Paston was working on Avidimab when she was with Immunocore?
Absolutely Rats, surprises me that a key member of Immunacores Research can leave the company and set up elsewhere with a Platform that was being developed with them. I thought there was something called Patents that would make that very unstraightforward. We should remember to that Immunacores financial position was not in its best state when she left.
We read so much about the change of key personnel, CEOs etc in the Big Pharmas every year, good to know we have enticed someone of Samanthas potential to us. Some ask do big Pharma know who we are, well it seems Lindy knows who in big Pharma to headhunt for our benefit, and it could well be a relationship between the two that perhaps led Samantha to us.
Lindy is not short of plaudits amongst us LTHs, but she is up there with every new treatment and who is leading the Research on their behalf. I cannot imagine a few years back Scancell being in a position to attract such senior staff as now, and it seems big progress is being made in the Manufacturing side with Adrian Parry at the helm too. Seeing the tangible results from our last two big appointments is a huge sign of what is to come, and at times like this comforting to know what is and might be happening behind the scenes.
There a few commercial deals that seem realistic at this time, over and above SCIB1/2 and Moditope, which could very well fund us throuh full trials and expenditure without the need for going to the market. Already we are funded to early 2021, a luxury we haven"t had for some considerable time, and when I talk of a good stratagy I mean with good fortune our funding could be secured for much longer, and start including other platforms in clinical development.
It is shame we are in a period where patience is really needed again, volumes are so low almost negidgable, but it is good to reming ourselves what we are being patient for, in these times. It is pretty pointless guessing when news will come, it can come at any time, but is essential to remind ourselves what we are being patient for. I have been doing that to a degree this weekend, wanted to ensure I kept away from speculating on speculation, we all know timelines set up at the AGM and we can just hope those will be on target. There is much going on at Scancell quite apart from just trials, which can easily get forgotten whilst the share has retreated 50% from the highs we saw after Vulpes appointment. I don"t believe it will take too much to see a return to those levels. Just MO.
Just pondering semantically, but interesting to see 'Our first collaboration and evaluation agreement with one of the major players.' Not 'this collaboration' but 'Our first..'
Samantha Paston..........................
https://www.bloomberg.com/profile/person/20928454
"""About Scancell Holdings PLC
Scancell Holdings PLC develops vaccines. The Company uses a human monoclonal antibody to target cells that stimulate immune system response. Scancell's vaccine can be customized against a specific disease."""
Following on from that article about Avidamab, many of us wondered why she had left Immunacore to join Scancell......................
"""Our first collaboration and evaluation agreement with one of the major players in the antibody development field is a significant achievement in such a short period of time and we believe our novel AvidiMab enhanced cell killing platform has broad partnering potential," said chief executive, Dr Cliff Holloway."""
Well it is a very short period of time since she left Immunacore to join Scancell, and we can see pretty clearly what she was working on there. Perhaps it was simply that Immunacore weren"t driving forward on this project, and it seems Lindy pulled off quite a coup getting her onboard here. Either way it seems it was a tremendous addition to our crew, and lets hope in another short period of time we can announce a commercial deal on this platform. I wonder what else Samanthe brought with her??
Here"s to a more interesting week here........... night guys
Scancell
Scancell’s breakthrough is called AvidiMab, which works with monoclonal antibodies that already form the basis of some very effective targeted cancer treatments.
The mAbs being developed by the AIM-listed drug developer are different, however, to the run of the mill antibody.
That’s because they target tumour-associated glycans that are associated with malignancies. The ability to hone in on these so-called TaGs is enhanced with the use of AvidiMab.
Scancell has produced a pipeline of these next-generation antibodies for use in the collaboration process.
“Our first collaboration and evaluation agreement with one of the major players in the antibody development field is a significant achievement in such a short period of time and we believe our novel AvidiMab enhanced cell killing platform has broad partnering potential," said chief executive, Dr Cliff Holloway."""
Anybody know who the major players might be?