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e-Therapeutics PLC is integrating computational power and biology to accelerate the discovery of life-transforming RNAi medicines. The company has developed and validated a powerful computational approach to drug discovery, leveraging our industry-leading expertise in network biology to fully capture and interrogate human disease complexity. e-Therapeutics' multi-disciplinary team builds computational models of biological functions to transform the search for new medicines, interventions, mechanisms and genetic support.
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Signed just over a year ago, the objective of the agreement is to find a new drug approach to idiopathic pulmonary fibrosis “and other fibrotic indications”
Alison Gallafent brings with her 20 years of experience as a patent lawyer
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"I am excited by the potential of e-Therapeutics' proprietary platform technologies to meaningfully transform and accelerate the drug discovery process," said Ali Mortazavi
“We have begun to build momentum as we move forward with our strategy delivering scientific progress as well as current and prospective partnerships,” said boss Ali Mortazavi
“The progress made to date in our collaboration with Galapagos to discover novel therapeutics in IPF and fibrosis is yet another validation of our technology platform," said chief executive Ali Mortazavi
Since 2009, Karl Keegan has held senior executive roles in private and public companies
New chairman Trevor Jones was R&D director of The Wellcome Foundation from 1987 to 1994, and a director of Allergan from 2005 to 2015
“Our platform has the significant and added advantage of being able to leverage our expertise in network biology," said chairman Ali Mortazavi
The company said testing from its network-driven drug discovery platform has revealed that inhibition of the same target, GRP94, is effective at suppressing hyperinflammation and also disrupting the ability of the COVID-19 virus to replicat
Danish giant Novo Nordisk recently signed up to use its NDD platform, and bosses expect more collaboration deals in the coming months
"Since his appointment in February, Ali has re-energised the company and, importantly, played a significant role in restructuring the portfolio," said non-executive director, Professor Trevor Jones
The biopharmaceutical firm has appointed Bill Harte, chief translational officer at the Case Western Reserve University School of Medicine in Ohio, and John Mattick, a professor of RNA Biology at UNSW Sydney in Australia
The company is aiming to raise the cash through a combination of a placing, a subscription and a retail offer to investors
The work, which will lean into ETX’s expertise in network biology and in silico phenotypic screening, will focus on approaches to modulate one specific mechanism involved in IPF and other fibrotic conditions
The R&D specialist believes its computational approach to drug discovery could aid the search for new RNAi drug candidates
The firm believes the initial compound set has the potential to address both viral replication and the associated excessive immune response caused by the pathogen
Dr Laura Roca-Alonso held positions of increasing responsibility at Silence Therapeutics until 2019, culminating in her role as VP, Head of Corporate Development