Research note3 Jun 2020 13:56
https://mcusercontent.com/d9ebd7c1aa0f3dbc5fab42eca/files/c3c405a7-e232-4ed7-b30d-f83cd435faba/Integumen_Research_Update_3_June_2020__FINAL_BG.pdf
Some snippets but full note above .
Having already been contracted to supply European bacteria reagent manufacturing capacity together with the provision of logistical support for Modern Water’s (AIM:MWG) sales, marketing and distribution in the US, EU, China and Japan, Integumen has demonstrated its ability to apply its unique services and technologies to rapidly identify and respond to the urgent needs being presented by the global Pandemic. Today’s further initiative potentially opens significant new and long-term market opportunities that simply did not exist just a few months ago. With the weight of anticipated demand from global-scale manufacturers seen likely to test the Group’s expanded laboratory capacity before the end of current period financial year, TPI’s Initiation research on Integumen plc (released on 9th January 2020) set a target price of 3.23p/share.
In May 2020, a pilot study run by the Surrey Perioperative Anaesthesia & Critical Care Collaborative Research Group at the Royal Surrey County Hospital commenced an investigation as to the ability of povidone-iodine (PVP-I) 0.5% aqueous solution oral/nasal spray and mouthwash to kill the SARS-CoV-2 virus in people with COVID-19. While complicated by problems with the recruitment and administration of patients in a clinical setting, this study is designed to test the hypothesis, as was highlighted in a press briefing by the US’s President Trump back in May, that a common medical disinfectant, administered to the mouth and nose of confirmed COVID-19 sufferers has potential to reduce the quantity of the virus in the fluid lining those areas.
Demonstration of this through the tests now to be undertaken at the University of Aberdeen (as detailed in today’s announcement, has potential to generate significant interest for such an ‘off-the-shelf’ solution from researchers, manufacturers and agencies around the world.