RE: If Hemo get bought out...18 Jun 2020 10:16
@Quickdraw re not selling before they have a commercial product, Dr Vlad wants to cure cancer, Hemogenyx are not a commercial company nor are they a treatment company, they still are R&D, they are not in any way set up to market or capitalise on any potential ground breaking treatments at this point. Any treatments approved will be going though licencing or acquired by a big pharma.
The problem is to get that far you need human trials which needs ALOT of resources, money, facilities, I am not sure how many patients will be required for the CDX or Hemo-CAR-T trials but I think I read somewhere that just one phase of the trials needs 500 participants? Given these patients will be spread across many hospitals if not countries it will have to be a partner. But Hemo can bring everything to pre-clinical state before they sell which is a very nice place to be.
The recent placing allowed them to accelerate the Hemo-CAR-T trials almost inline with the end of the extended agreement with Global Co and CDX. All coming to a very similar state at around the same time.
Regarding valuation, well look back at 2018 https://www.lse.co.uk/media/HEMO/ and you will see Vlad put a market valuation as $9bil potential, and thats BEFORE they realised just how good the mice were and realised they are a massive revenue stream on their own. And then take into the equation any potential Covid products...
The Bone Marrow Transplant work basically brings BMT from being a risky last line of defence treatment for a small number of AML sufferers to potentially a first line treatment and cure. Its a massive deal, if hemo were set up to complete all the human trials and get all the patents, licences, orphan drug status etc then they would be worth many many billions at the end. The potential really is that huge.
HOWEVER Hemogenyx are not big enough or able on their own to realise this potential. They need help to get through all those stages. No Global pharma is going to help without either buying Hemo and completing the work in house with the Hemo team working under their umbrella or taking out a very attractive contract in exchange for the risk they accept.