Optimistic30 Apr 2024 08:16
I agreed with comments, we’re all here to help each other rather than be deconstructive. The way I see it there a challenges and big positives:
Positives:
- strong order book versus last year
- recruiting staff to key commercialisation roles
- partnership with global diagnostics company which is generating recurring orders already
- evidence of diversification from previous strategy
- world first technology being validated by worlds most prestigious cancer centre which had £7bn funding from US government last year.
- new class leading technologies, optimal, optiphage, AIMLAB, getting traction in market shortly after development
- other pipeline opportunities in development include Fusion being part of the future medicines institute being developed to strengthen r&d collaboration as part of Northern Ireland life sciences cluster. Hopefully word soon on that being funded.
- royalty and milestone entitlement in a range of projects that could generate future revenue.
- challenges
- cash runway less than a year and dependent on cash neutrality
- interest rate environment might slow biotech and VC recovery that was anticipated
- need to recruit staff to commercialise orders could slow recovery
- lack of corporate and investor comms strategy will probably keep share price depressed to a greater extent unless significant news comes