Dublin-listed Open Orphan has won a contract to conduct a trial into a vaccine for Covid-19.
The deal is with Codagenix and 48 adults will volunteer for the clinical trial.
Hvivo, part of Open Orphan, will conduct the tests for Codagenix at a quarantine facility in London.
The vaccine, CodaVax-Covid, replicates very slowly, but contains all Sars-Cov-2 proteins.
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).