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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Open Orphan #ORPH – Ethics approval – COVID-19 Human Challenge Study February 17, 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 the world’s first COVID-19 characterisation study has received approval from a specially convened Research Ethics Committee (“REC”). This news follows the announcement on 20 October 2020 of Open Orphan subsidiary hVIVO’s contract with the UK Government to develop a COVID-19 human challenge study model.   The…

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Open Orphan #ORPH – New challenge study quarantine clinic at Whitechapel February 3, 2021 – Posted in: Blog, Open Orphan (ORPH)

Open Orphan plc (AIM: ORPH), a rapidly growing specialist pharmaceutical services contract research organization (CRO) and world leader in vaccine and antiviral testing using human challenge clinical trials, announces that hVIVO, part of Open Orphan plc, has opened a new quarantine clinic in East London. The new site is based in Whitechapel, directly opposite the Queen Mary BioEnterprise Innovation Centre (“QMB”) which houses hVIVO’s 24 bedroom unique state-of-the-art FluCamp site and the recently opened new…

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Open Orphan #ORPH – Article Published in Drug Discovery Today January 21, 2021 – Posted in: Blog, Open Orphan (ORPH)

Open Orphan (AIM: ORPH), a rapidly growing specialist pharmaceutical services clinical research organization (CRO) and a world leader in vaccine and antiviral testing using human challenge clinical trials, announces an article submission has been published in Drug Discovery Today, a print and online trade magazine with an emphasis on the science which underpins drug discovery and development. The published editorial is titled “Modelling the World – can deliberately infecting healthy volunteers really tell us much…

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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 Chairman Cathal Friel talks to Ian King, Sky News about the Codagenix nasal Covid-19 vaccine phase I study December 15, 2020 – Posted in: Open Orphan (ORPH)

Open Orphan #ORPH Chairman Cathal Friel talks to Ian King, Sky News about the Codagenix nasal Covid-19 vaccine phase I study, which has received regulatory approval. Tests start at the hVIVO Whitechapel facility in the new year. Cathal explains the simplicity, ease of application of the nasal application, and looks at the history of hVIVO’s East London facility.

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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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