Pharmaceutical services firm Hvivo has signed a £6.3m (€7.3m) contract with a biotechnology client.
Irish-founded Hvivo runs drug trials known as challenge studies from its London clinics.
The company will test the biotechnology’s client’s antiviral candidate using its human challenge study model for HRV (human rhinovirus).
Human rhinoviruses are a group of pathogens which cause the common cold.
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.