RE: RE: SP up on no sells29 Jun 2026 18:09
As well as the disconnect between current valuation and potential future valuations, this gave me more confidence for the future…
The November 2025 LoI with the leading NHS-linked diagnostic services provider established a formal validation pathway.
Under the terms, the partner — unnamed for commercial reasons but believed by some informed investors to be a major UK reference laboratory group with existing NHS Foundation Trust contracts — will immediately carry out a validation exercise with Professor Coverley’s involvement.
Success criteria, if met, will lead to negotiation of a full Partnership Agreement in which the provider may become the exclusive UK supplier of the CIZ1B test.
The regulatory pathway in the UK is UKCA/CE marking and potentially HIE (Healthcare In-vitro diagnostic Exemption) routes.
The UK’s Health Research Authority clinical trial reforms that came into force in April 2026 — the biggest such reforms in over 20 years — may create accelerated pathways for diagnostic tools that have already been validated internationally, particularly where equivalent data can be leveraged rather than requiring entirely new UK-specific safety datasets.
The political alignment could not be stronger. The UK government’s NHS cancer plan explicitly targets diagnosing 75% of cancers at Stage 1 or 2 by 2028, with an ambition to save 55,000 additional lives per year.
There is currently no blood-based biomarker test for lung cancer anywhere in the NHS. The CIZ1B test, if validated and approved, would be the only such tool available to NHS clinicians — a unique proposition.
The scale of the NHS as a single procurement entity means that a successful UK partnership could generate serious volume extremely quickly in a way that’s simply not possible elsewhere.