Stock market listed pharmaceutical services firm Hvivo has signed a £16.8m (€19.5m) contract with an existing pharmaceutical client.
The contract will see Hvivo test the pharmaceutical company’s respiratory syncytial virus (RSV) antiviral drug candidate using the Hvivo RSV human challenge study model.
Irish-founded Hvivo, previously known as Open Orphan, runs drug trials known as challenge studies from its London clinics.
The contract also includes the fast manufacturing of the RSV challenge agent.
hVIVO plc (formerly Open Orphan plc) is a rapidly growing specialist contract research organisation (CRO) and the world leader in testing infectious and respiratory disease vaccines and antivirals using human challenge clinical trials, providing end-to-end early clinical development services for its broad and long-standing client base of biopharma companies.