RE: Nasdaq listing12 Feb 2021 23:37
Interesting to see how far we have come from the RTO of 3Legs Resources to obtain a listing on AIM:
This is what Wiseacre posted on ADVFN 21/03/2016
wiseacre: An experimental cancer drug discovered at Oxford university is the focus of a new UK biotech company to be listed in London this week led by two veterans of Bristol-Myers Squibb, the large US pharmaceuticals group. SalvaRX has been set up with backing from Jim Mellon, the Isle of Man-based investor, as an incubator for early-stage cancer drug developers. More On this topic Call for tighter controls for drug trials Anjana Ahuja Ditching your birth identity Immune cell breakthrough in cancer fight Bioelectrics industry is one to watch IN Pharmaceuticals Valeant is the latest troubled roll-up to unravel Witty’s tenure at GSK divides opinion Analysts bullish as Valeant struggled Witty defends GSK strategy to the end Its first asset is iOx Therapeutics which is working on treatments using so-called natural killer T-cells to attack tumours. SalvaRX’s chief executive, Ian Walters, and its chief scientific officer, Robert Kramer, were both senior members of the team that put BMS at the forefront of a new class of cancer drugs called immunotherapies. These medicines, which harness the immune system to destroy tumours, are widely seen as the most important cancer breakthrough for decades and have been tipped to generate tens of billions of dollars in annual sales for the pharma industry. SalvaRX will scour academia and the biotech sector for novel immunotherapies and deploy capital and expertise to develop them. The company’s shares are due to begin trading on London’s junior Aim market on Tuesday after a reverse takeover of 3Legs Resources, a shell company backed by Mr Mellon which was previously engaged in a failed search for shale gas in Poland. Mr Mellon, whose wealth was estimated at £850m in last year’s Sunday Times rich list, made his fortune in mining but also invests in life sciences. SalvaRX raised just under £2m in a share placement as part of its reversal into the Aim shell and Dr Walters said the company planned a more substantial fundraising with institutional investors in due course. See Today's FT: The company owns 60 per cent of iOx with the rest held by Oxford university and Ludwig Cancer Research, a global network of leading cancer scientists. IOx’s so-called iNKT agonist drugs have shown promise in animals and Dr Walters said the first clinical trials in humans would start soon, financed by Oxford. Dr Walters acknowledged that cancer immunotherapy had become a crowded field but insisted there was still plenty of untapped science — especially in Europe — beyond the “checkpoint inhibitors” that have attracted most investment so far. “Eighty-five per cent of the industry is focusing on checkpoints and antibodies. We are focusing on the other areas where there is a lot of white space,” he said. “The science is advancing exponentially so there is so much more to come.....
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