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Press Release | 22 March 2013 |
Evocutis plc
("the Company")
Notice of Interim Results
Evocutis plc (AIM:EVO), the company focused on advanced laboratory and clinical evaluations of skincare products for the health and cosmetic markets, today announces that the Company will announce its Interim Results for the six months ended 31 January 2013 on Thursday 28 March 2013.
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For further information, please contact:
Evocutis plc | |
Tom Bannatyne, Chairman | +44 (0) 844 209 8440 |
Dr Gwyn Humphreys, Chief Executive Officer | www.evocutis.com |
Zeus Capital Limited | |
Andrew Jones | Tel: +44 (0) 161 831 1512 |
Nick Cowles | www.zeuscapital.co.uk |
XCAP Securities Plc | |
Halimah Hussain / Adrian Kirk | Tel: +44 (0) 207 101 7070 |
www.xcapgroup.co.uk |
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About Evocutis plc
With a rich portfolio of new product opportunities, Evocutis offers antimicrobial and dermatological expertise to the cosmetic, consumer healthcare and pharmaceutical industries. Being uniquely able to combine research for laboratory testing, advanced skin models and clinical testing, Evocutis offers a complete service for the development of skin care products and ingredients. Through research and testing Evocutis enables its clients to advance the discovery of skin care products that actually work.
Offering high quality contract research services, Evocutis specialises in Human Skin Microbiology, tissue culture systems and Human Volunteer and Clinical Dermatology Research. Unique characteristics of its colonised full thickness model of human skin (LabSkin™) allow rapid, cost effective screening of, for example, anti-ageing, anti-inflammatory and antimicrobial ingredients and products for use on skin.
When it comes to advanced laboratory and clinical evaluations of skincare products for the health and cosmetic markets, the Evocutis focus is simple: intelligent and specialised R&D input.
For further information, please see www.evocutis.com
About LabSkin™
LabSkin™ is an animal-replacement technology, that emulates living skin tissue and is a high value research and product testing tool for the cosmetic and healthcare industries. It is a full thickness human skin model, comprised of both dermal and epidermal layers, and is produced exclusively and reproducibly on site at Evocutis from primary human cells (keratinocytes & fibroblasts). The model exhibits a fully differentiated epidermal layer, which provides a completely dry surface for tailored testing requirements.
LabSkin™ is highly versatile, and alongside its antimicrobial model, Evocutis is developing models to test anti-ageing and moisturising products. The antimicrobial LabSkin™ model allows testing using pathogenic microorganisms which would not be possible in human clinical studies. In addition, methods have been developed to allow LabSkin™ to be inoculated with skin washings taken directly from human skin, thus providing a step-change in the quality of data possible from a laboratory model. By benchmarking activity against best-in-class products, the activity of new ingredients and formulations can be assessed for several antimicrobial endpoints, including immediate kill, rate of kill and residual activity.
Recent research indicates that our natural microflora is an integral part of our skin and makes a significant contribution to skin health. LabSkin™ provides a unique living skin surface which is validated for microbial applications and can simultaneously provide information on irritation, penetration, barrier function and skin structure.