Our Appointments RNS11 Feb 2019 04:50
Morning, well my first attempt at posting this removed the text, so here we go again. The last couple of weeks the SP performance has seriously bothered me. I can argue the positives and negatives passionately, but when this RNS came through my thoughts were pretty much the same then as they are now. Would Scancell have made these appointments, which seem pretty long term to me, if they didn"t know where funding was coming from. CH said to me that ALL funding options are being considered, i found the ALL in capitals interesting and i can"t imagine that includes a placing or o/o at 6.6p or lower. Strongly suggests to me that Scancell know where the initial funding will come from, in a non dilutive way. Heres that RNS again........................................
21 January 2019
Scancell Holdings Plc
(“Scancell” or the “Company”)
Scancell appoints Head of Research and Head of Manufacturing
Samantha Paston, PhD appointed Head of Research; Adrian Parry, PhD appointed Head of Manufacturing
Appointments add significant expertise to further advance Scancell’s pipeline of cancer immunotherapies
Scancell Holdings plc, the developer of novel immunotherapies for the treatment of cancer, today announces
the appointment of Dr Samantha Paston as Head of Research and Dr Adrian Parry as Head of Manufacturing.
Dr Paston started in her role in mid-January and Dr Parry will start in his role on 01 February 2019.
Dr Samantha Paston joins Scancell from Immunocore where she has held several positions since June 2008
including Head of T Cell Cloning and Group Leader. While at Immunocore Samantha was responsible for the
generation of the in house T cell cloning method and biological molecule discovery which made significant
contributions to the current Immunocore oncology pipeline. Prior to this, Samantha held a number of positions
at Medigene, Avidex, NIBSC and GSK. Samantha holds a PhD from University College London in
Immunology/Haematology, following an BSc Honours Degree in Microbiology from the University of Sheffield.
Based at the Company’s corporate offices in Oxford, Samantha will report directly to Scancell’s founder and
Chief Scientific Officer, Professor Lindy Durrant who commented: “Samantha will be invaluable in
immunological design of the upcoming trials and spearheading the new TCR therapeutics and I am very
excited to add such an experienced scientist to the team.”
Dr Adrian Parry joins Scancell from Mereo BioPharma where he was Head of Small Molecule CMC (Chemistry,
Manufacturing and Controls), managing outsourced GMP manufacturing activities to support their clinical trials.
Prior to this, Adrian was New Product Development Director at Juniper Pharmaceuticals where he managed
and coordinated preclinical and CMC development activities. Adrian has previously held further CMC positions
at Circassia, Shire Pharmaceuticals, Prosidion, Evotec and OSI Pharmaceuticals, totalling 20 years of
development expertise .
BioNTech anybod