Turner Pope23 Feb 2021 18:04
Could be of interest to your perusal :
'Strategy post-Redmile funding initiative
Redmile recognised the broad utility of Scancell’s technologies and development pipeline. It also appears to wish
to take advantage of an apparent ‘scientific arbitrage’ opportunity that seemingly has been created between the US
and Europe, in terms of recognising the different levels of scientific value allocated to innovative drug development
technologies/initiatives and the teams driving/supporting them in different geographical locations. Within this, it
recognised a major and continuing drag on successful development and its associated commercialisation due to
the lack of adequate and immediately funding, perhaps resulting from a relatively pedantic ‘drip-feed’ European
approach to extending/progressing necessarily costly clinical and/or tech-intensive projects. Having selected such
‘winners’, the contrasting ‘US approach’ adopted by Redmile instead, is to inject significant ‘transformational’ cash
funding (in either straight equity, CLNs or a mix of the two) that can be rapidly put to work in order to resource and
accelerate existing programmes, while also seeking to seize opportunities unique technologies might present and
in tandem broadening pipelines sufficiently to capture a larger proportion of the inherent value, rather than
externalise the assets too early through royalty or milestone-based sales to larger, better-resourced development
partnerships. '
https://mcusercontent.com/d9ebd7c1aa0f3dbc5fab42eca/files/b06a222d-09d8-48ee-b6e5-f7d3d9c03f77/Scancell_Holdings_plc_19_11_2020_FINAL_BGv3.pdf