RE: 50p23 Mar 2022 09:23
Morning Andy. You are certainly consistent in your scathing assessment of RM!
I share the frustration, but have a lesser desire to see his head on a pike. Possibly "better the devil you know" or maybe a concern that a change of CEO at this stage might do more harm than good? I'm not quite sure...
Anyhow, it's a fair point that RM and the senior team have had 17 years to get a product to market and failed.
Maybe due to a struggle to transition from a scientifically-driven research company to a more commercially-driven one...although they did certainly seem to be making the right moves in terms of partnerships and hires to get SNG001 commercialised prior to P3 results, so there maybe a glimmer of hope there.
They also have a team of very well-connected people with Sir Stephen Holgate a useful figurehead, with a large degree of respect and gravitas from what I can see, so you'd think that was another positive?
Ref your point on "starting from scratch again" (possibly with a new CEO), I fear this would take a lot longer than the 6 months you state and there is the chance of something going wrong, goalposts changing again or any number of unseen curveballs.
Therefore, and also based on the excellent posts by Tommy, Brand and other people yesterday, my preference now is "no more trials". Instead, use the deep-dive of ALL of the data we have got from previous trials and present this in the best and most compelling way, to seek an EUA. We "know" SNG001 works and is safe. Covid is spiking again, with new more variants seemingly being announced daily - there is (still) the "fire to put out" that RM said we needed in previous interviews.
The team should be looking to strike while the iron is hot, both from a commercial and a moral "life saving" point of view. Again, based on the posts yesterday it seems there are precedents of EUAs being granted on encouraging (but not perfect) data, or using In-Vitro data, or continuing "trialling" drugs after they have been commercialised and are being used in anger and so on. It all seems possible and I'd like to think that Synairgen are aware of these potential routes to commercialisation and are pursuing them like the clappers, resulting in a VERY POSITIVELY WORDED RNS to follow shortly.
I'll type that last bit again in case there are any of the Synairgen team on here: VERY POSITIVELY WORDED RNS.
So, main question for me...are Synairgen on the same page as most of us seem to be, or are they happy to keep plodding along with trial after trial and turning positive data into rather underwhelming RNSs?
All IMO, DYOR and GLA :-)