Dublin-listed clinical trials group Open Orphan has announced that its subsidiary Hvivo has signed a £5 million (€6m) human challenge study contract with a European biotechnology company.
The study will test the company’s intravenous antiviral candidate for respiratory syncytial virus, the main cause of childhood lower respiratory infections and responsible for significant health issues in the elderly and in adults with chronic medical problems.
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).