RE: This is ready to Pop! Like Novacyt27 Feb 2020 22:23
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"Open Orphan’s Executive Chairman Cathal Friel told ValueTheMarkets that the hVIVO merger “very much came at the right time”, adding: “Governments and pharmaceutical companies have not invested enough into novel vaccines for a long, long time and only now is it finally receiving a great deal of interest. Vaccine development work had been almost like a Cinderella type industry in recent weeks but going forward it is clear that vaccine development is going to be one of the big growth markets in the years ahead.”
Despite their evident expertise and the importance of bringing vaccines to market, scientists have traditionally struggled to attract the kind of capital needed to fully equip virology labs.
Open Orphan possesses the resources necessary to take advantage of this “gap in the market”. The company has access to a 24-bed high-quarantine facility at Queens. This is the only one of its kind in Europe, and is currently being used by pharmaceutical companies to test their vaccines against known viruses.
Traditionally, the clinic has only had a low utilisation of around 30%. However, Friel told investors at a recent shareholder presentation day that he is very optimistic that, given the current Coronavirus outbreak, the clinic will certainly have a much higher utilisation in the weeks and months ahead. The on-site viral laboratory can help companies to quickly and accurately analyse viruses, speeding up the vaccine development lifecycle."