RE: US link9 Feb 2022 09:45
Signs Service Agreement with TheoremRx
London, UK - ValiRx Plc (AIM: VAL), a life science company focusing on early-stage cancer therapeutics and women's health, announces today it has entered into a Service Agreement with TheoremRx Inc. ("TheoremRx"), a recently incorporated company, to enable ValiRx to work with TheoremRx to engage with Clinical Research Organisations (CROs) and supporting vendors for the next clinical trial of VAL201.
This Service Agreement was contemplated by the Letter of Intent announced by the Company on 2 November 2021, which outlined the intention of ValiRx and TheoremRx to enter into a sub-license to enable TheoremRx to develop VAL201 in the field of oncology. Completion of the sub-license is subject to the successful fundraise by TheoremRx.
TheoremRx is a private US-based oncology company focused on the discovery and development of new treatments that will benefit patients suffering from cancer. TheoremRx has established a highly integrated approach for the discovery, development and manufacture of peptide and small molecule drugs that modulate targets of clinical interest.
This Service Agreement enables ValiRx to work as a consultant to TheoremRx and will receive market rate, fair value consultancy fee, invoiced each calendar month until the termination of the Service Agreement, for the provision of consultancy services. The consultancy work contemplated by the Service Agreement includes introductions to CROs, requesting proposals, reviewing and advising on proposals and co-ordinating the scientific efforts to commence the next clinical trial of VAL201; enabling trial set up procedures to be executed in parallel to the fund-raising period. This signature confirms the commencement date of the Service Agreement to be 1 November 2021.
Further to the Company's announcement on 20 December 2021, the Company outlines the following steps of the documentation completed to-date towards the full execution of the sub-license of VAL201 for oncology to TheoremRx:
- Letter of Intent, announced on 2 November 2021, detailing the terms under which the sub-license will be signed;
- the amendment of the license between ValiRx and CRT, announced on 20 December 2021;
- the approval of the sub-license with TheoremRx by CRT, also announced on 20 December 2021; and
- the Service Agreement as detailed in this announcement.
The sub-license completion is subject to a successful fund-raise, with completion anticipated by end-Q1 2022.
The Letter of Intent and proposed sub-license therefore remain non-binding and there is no guarantee that this sub-license will be executed or that it will generate material revenues within the expected timeframe or at all.
Dr Suzy Dilly, CEO of ValiRx commented: "The work we have done with TheoremRx since signing the Letter of Intent in November 2021 has involved both the negotiation and finalisation of documents between TheoremRx, ValiRx and CRT, but has also started the pr