Open Orphan #ORPH – Results from the world’s first COVID-19 Characterisation Study February 2, 2022 – Posted in: Blog, Open Orphan (ORPH)

Open Orphan (AIM: ORPH), a rapidly growing specialist contract research organisation (CRO) and world leader in testing infectious and respiratory disease products using human challenge clinical trials, announces the results from the world’s first COVID-19 characterisation study, which was a partnership between hVIVO, Imperial College London, the Vaccine Taskforce and Department of Health and Social Care (DHSC), and the Royal Free London NHS Foundation Trust. The results from this landmark study, show that a SARS-CoV-2…

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Open Orphan PLC #ORPH – NEJM Opinion Piece July 22, 2021 – Posted in: Open Orphan (ORPH)

The New England Journal of Medicine (NEJM) publishes editorial relating to Human Challenge Programme Open Orphan (AIM: ORPH), a rapidly growing specialist clinical research organisation (CRO) and a world leader in vaccine and antiviral testing using human challenge clinical trials, confirms that an editorial opinion piece regarding the UK Government’s Human Challenge Programme has been published in the latest edition of the New England Journal of Medicine (NEJM). The piece, titled ‘Establishing the Model during an Evolving Pandemic’, explores the extensive…

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Open Orphan #ORPH – World’s first Covid-19 human challenge study to expand July 14, 2021 – Posted in: Blog, Open Orphan (ORPH)

Open Orphan (AIM: ORPH), a rapidly growing specialist pharmaceutical services clinical research organisation (CRO) and world leader in vaccine and antiviral testing using human challenge clinical trials, announces that hVIVO, a subsidiary of Open Orphan plc, is continuing to work with the UK Government to inoculate up to 20 further volunteers as part of the world’s first COVID-19 characterisation study. As part of the characterisation study, researchers aimed to identify a dose of COVID-19 that…

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Open Orphan #ORPH – Launch of Disease in Motion platform April 9, 2021 – Posted in: Blog, Open Orphan (ORPH)

Open Orphan (AIM: ORPH), a rapidly growing specialist pharmaceutical services clinical research organisation (CRO) and world leader in vaccine and antiviral testing using human challenge clinical trials , announces that hVIVO , a subsidiary of Open Orphan, has officially launched its Disease in Motion® platform. This unique data-focused platform includes clinical, immunological, virological and digital (wearable) biomarkers. The Disease in Motion platform has multiple infectious disease applications that are applicable to a wide variety of…

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Open Orphan #ORPH – COVID-19 Human Challenge Programme update March 25, 2021 – Posted in: Blog, Open Orphan (ORPH)

Open Orphan (AIM: ORPH), a rapidly growing specialist pharmaceutical services clinical research organisation (CRO) and world leader in vaccine and antiviral testing using human challenge clinical trials , announces an update in the world’s first COVID-19 characterisation study. Following Research Ethics Committee approval on 17 February 2021, hVIVO, a subsidiary of Open Orphan, began the study at the Royal Free London NHS Foundation Trust earlier this month. The first three volunteers have now successfully completed…

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ECR Minerals #ECR – CEO Craig Brown talks to Alan Green March 4, 2021 – Posted in: Blog

Brand Comms CEO Alan Green talks to ECR Minerals #ECR CEO Craig Brown about the company’s flagship gold exploration projects in the heart of Australia’s Victoria Goldfields. Taking slides from the latest company presentation, Craig talks about ECR’s wholly owned drill rig, HQ at Bendigo and the £4m funding and extra cash resources owned by the company. We look at the Creswick Gold project located close to the Ballarat Gold Mine before discussing this year’s…

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Cadence Minerals and the next Commodity Supercycle February 27, 2021 – Posted in: Blog

There is little doubt that historians will conclude that the global impact of COVID-19 represents the worst crisis since the Great Depression. The pandemic is leaving deep and enduring scars on the global economy, taxing health and medical services to the limit, depriving children of education, while decimating sectors of commerce and industry and in particular leisure and travel. But history has shown on numerous occasions that the indomitable human spirit has a remarkable capacity…

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Open Orphan #ORPH – First volunteer dosed in intranasal COVID-19 vaccine clinical trial January 11, 2021 – Posted in: Open Orphan (ORPH)

Open Orphan plc (AIM: ORPH), a rapidly growing specialist pharmaceutical services CRO and a world leader in vaccine and antiviral testing using human challenge clinical trials, announces that the first volunteer has been dosed with the Codagenix Inc. (“Codagenix”) needle free, intranasal COVID-19 vaccine, COVI-VAC. Conducted by hVIVO, part of Open Orphan plc, the Phase I clinical trial of COVI-VAC is being carried out at their facility in the UK. COVI-VAC is a single-dose, intranasal, live…

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Open Orphan #ORPH – MHRA approval for nasal COVID-19 vaccine clinical trial – Posted in: Uncategorized

First in human trials for vaccine candidate with the potential to confer long-term immunity Open Orphan plc (AIM: ORPH), a rapidly growing specialist pharmaceutical services CRO which is the world leader in the testing of vaccines and antivirals using human challenge clinical trials, announces the first in human (Phase I) study of Codagenix intranasal SARS-CoV-2 (COVID-19) vaccine candidate has received approval from the UK’s independent Medicines and Healthcare Products Regulatory Agency (MHRA). Further to the…

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