RE: RNS - Hemo multi pronged science2 Feb 2024 12:00
I realise we are all focused on CAR-T, and rightly so, but it is worth considering any potential impact from todays RNS....
" CDX which remains one of our key product candidates for the future. "....
Brief recap, CDX is why I initially bought into Hemo back almost 6 years now, at the time they were aiming for clinical trials in 18 months targeting blood cancers and would hope to marry it with Hu-PHEC. CDX is basically a replacement for chemotherapy and radiotherapy. Much less toxic, removes most of the nasty side effects that come with blindly injecting the body with poison or radiation. Avct have taken a different approach and are trying to just make chemo safer, its a very similar market but different approach, NOT making a comment on which is better, just useful for comparison of valuations. The market is worth billions and today a large percentage of older or vulnerable patients are simply not able to tolerate chemo so just get palliative care and die. So the true market is even bigger IF CDX is safe for those patients.
A few years ago CDX appeared to be culminating with anticipation of licencing deals with Eli Lilly and the SP was pretty static at around 10p despite a nasty CLN in place at the time. Eli were not in a position to progress CDX at speed, did not want to go down the oncology route it was not their business model so they did not licence CDX from Hemo but instead on very favourable terms licenced their IP to Hemo allowing Vlad to package CDX and continue the work. Some time after this we were told that licencing talks were ongoing with a pharma for CDX but it was taking a back seat to CBR and CAR-T. And that is where we have remained... During meetings and interviews its been made clear that there are active talks, in printed reports its more vague such as: " We continue to explore potential partnership arrangements to take that forward."
No clear reasons have been given for why it has taken so long to progress HOWEVER 2 likely scenarios are:
1, Hemogenyx may need to match some funding in any partnership - A problem that goes away when CAR-T is clinical
2, Its possible the partner did not want to invest time or money when there was a chance the patent would be rejected.
Now the patent has been accepted?.... Anyway this is my only comment on the RNS today, focus is CAR-T for now but it is worthy to remember that HEMO-CAR-T is the SMALLEST of the pipeline candidates, CDX has the potential to be HUGE and today may very well unlock corporate actions in the very near future. CBR has the potential to be Microsoft... And still its ALL available for less than 50mil! Lol :P This SP wont last, its not sustainable.