RE: Blue Wednesday !18 Aug 2021 10:52
Hi Riddler -
June 2021 Q&A -
Regarding the collaboration with Physiomics, have they completed all the necessary work for VAL201?
Can you share with us the order in which Physiomics will conduct modelling on our drugs? We have
given them three drugs, VAL201, VAL301 and BC201, Which is first, second and third?
Have you explored with PYC the potential for use in sepsis using VALl201?
The Company announced the extension of the agreement with Physiomics plc (AIM: PYC) in January
2021. This detailed that Physiomics will be carrying out a programme of work spread over a 9-month
period to consider all three programmes that use the VAL201 peptide as an active ingredient – VAL201 in
prostate cancer, VAL301 in endometriosis and BC201, the collaborative project with Black Cat Bio and
OncoLytika considering the peptide in the treatment of patients with severe symptoms of Covid-19.
The programme of works provides an analysis of the clinical data collected for VAL201, and the
comparison of this to the preclinical data generated for all three programmes, aiming to provide
additional scientific evidence of the mechanisms of action and proposing hypotheses to be tested in
further clinical or preclinical testing on all of these projects.
As the behaviour of the peptide in the cell will have similar characteristics regardless of the disease
studied, the work is not split strictly into the project areas – i.e. it is not the case that they will work on
the projects sequentially. The behaviour of the peptide will be modelled based on the data generated,
and conclusions relating to each project can then be drawn from those models.
At the current time, Physiomics have carried out analysis on the clinical data, and when the new
preclinical data being generated for the endometriosis project (detailed above) and for BC201 (detailed
below) are available, they will continue to amalgamate these new data points into their models.
The conclusions surrounding BC201 will be applied to the understanding of whether the peptide could
also be used as a treatment of sepsis. The increased overall understanding of the activity of the peptide,
by Physiomics and by our Scientific Advisory Board will enable better understanding of all potential
applications of the peptide.