Venn Life Sciences, a subsidiary of Irish based Open Orphan, has been awarded two new contracts, including a Covid-19 drug trial.
Open Orphan is a specialist clinical trials company which tests vaccines and antivirals using human challenge clinical trials. It is already on course to start the world’s first human challenge trial for Covid-19 in January 2021, which will see healthy volunteers exposed to the virus in a London clinic as a first step to testing the effectiveness of a potential vaccine.
Open Orphan (LON:ORPH) was founded in 2017, with the goal of rapidly building Europe’s leading pharma services company by a management team with extensive industry and financial expertise. The company comprises of two commercial specialist CRO services businesses (Venn Life Sciences and hVIVO) and is also developing a genomics data platform business (Genomic Health Data).