Computing the Future of
Medicine™
Interim results for six months ended 31 July 2023
26th October 2023
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Company Overview
Driving innovation at the intersection of AI and precision medicine
Our mission:
Integrating computational power and biology to discover life-transforming medicines
Cash and cash equivalents £24.8m 2022: £21.8m
Revenue | |
£0.2m | 2022: £0.3m |
R&D spend | |
£5.3m | 2022: £3.1m |
Operating loss | |
£7.0m | 2022: £4.6m |
Loss after tax | |
£5.6m | 2022: £3.8m |
R&D tax credit receivable | |
£2.5m | 2022: £2.2m |
Multi-disciplinary team (exc NED) 34 FTE 2022: 38
Share Price (25/10/23)
10.7p
Shares outstanding (25/10/23)
583.8m
Market cap (25/10/23)
£62.5m
London Boston
Company HQ
Interim results for six months ended 31 July 2023
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Our Approach
Integrating computational power and biology to discover life-transforming medicines
Therapeutic
Pipeline
World-class hepatocyte data | Proprietary chemistry platform | In-house pipeline of |
resource with sophisticated | for potent and durable | GalOmic™ RNAi therapies |
network biology analytics for | hepatocyte-specific mRNA | across broad range of |
target ID and ability to automate | knockdown of novel targets | indications, with lead assets in |
early stages of preclinical | identified by HepNet™ | cardiometabolic disease and |
development | haemophilia |
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Traditional Approaches to Drug Development are Too Slow and Too Expensive
- Typical small molecule preclinical development takes a minimum of 5-10years.
- Enabled by computation and use of the RNAi modality, we can go from from gene target selection to disease model experiments in 6 months, costing less than $500,000 and IND ready in 3 years.
- This means we can rapidly develop multiple life-transforming RNAi medicines for the people that need them.
Preclinical Development Timeline | |||||||
Target | Drug | Animal | IND-enabling | ETX's RNAi platform enables rapid and | |||
ID | Design | Disease Models | cost-effective drug development | ||||
6 months | 6-12 months | 18 months | |||||
<$500K | $500K - 1m | $4 - 6m | |||||
Typical Small Molecule Preclinical Development Timeline | |||||||
Target ID & Validation | Hit ID | Hit-to-Lead | Lead Optimisation | IND-enabling | |||
Minimum 5-10 years | |||||||
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Therapeutic
Pipeline
HepNet™
Our world-classhepatocyte-specific computational biology platform
HepNet™ is our proprietary computational biology platform,
built on the world's most comprehensive hepatocyte-specific
knowledgebase. It enables:
- Identification of novel targets for a wide range of diseases through sophisticated network analytics that account for the true complexity of biology
- Increased speed of execution by automating drug discovery and design processes
- Mining of 100s of integrated data sources to distil new mechanistic knowledge of hepatocyte biology
ETX data and knowledge covers…
12,091 expressed genes
1039 secreted proteins | |
461 | proteins secreted |
to blood | |
700 biological processes
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HepNet™
Our world-classhepatocyte-specific computational biology platform
Unstructured Data | Structured Data | Computational | ||
From Various Sources | (Knowledge Graph) | Analysis | Outputs | |
Network Analytics | ||||
Literature | Patents | Hidden Gene-Disease | Novel Gene Targets | |
Grants | Links (scored) | siRNA Construct | ||
Proteins | Machine Learning | |||
ncRNAs | Design | |||
siRNA Efficacy | ||||
Pathways | Drugs | |||
Expert Review | Prediction | |||
Omics | ||||
GWAS | ||||
Competitive Intelligence | Biological Insights | |||
Clinical Trials | Intellectual Property | |
Animal Models | Patents | |
Literature Review | ||
HepNet™ increases automation and provides us with the ability to identify novel
targets and rapidly design siRNA constructs.
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siRNA Efficacy Prediction
Using machine learning to predict siRNA efficacy and bypass in vitro screening
- Highly accurate model trained on proprietary, high-quality training datasets
- Trained model demonstrates high prediction accuracy, performance is superior to widely used algorithms (BioPredSi, ThermoComposition21)
- Enables identification of lead siRNA sequences in silico, minimising number of sequences that require screening
- We are now exploring further enhancement of predictions using large language models trained on mRNA sequences
Pre-AI Approach | Post-AI Approach |
Maximum predicted mRNA knockdown
Predicted vs measured siRNA efficacy
(Validation Dataset)
Spearman Rank
Correlation ρ=0.85
Maximum measured mRNA knockdown (in vitro)
Number of siRNA screened | Up to 400 | <10 | |
Time to lead identification | 6 months | 1 month | |
(potential clinical candidate) | |||
Cost of screening | $500,000 | $50,000 | |
HepNet™'s siRNA efficacy prediction already reduces preclinical development timelines and costs, with potential to enable bypassing of in vitro screening
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Enhancing Computation with LLMs
Transforming HepNet™ into a dynamic knowledge resource
- We are fully embracing the latest advances in generative AI and LLMs through integration with HepNet™ and creation of specialist LLM agents
- LLM agents trained on specific data such as scientific papers, mRNA sequences, hepatocyte- specific data, patents etc. will support target ID, target-indication evaluation and drug design
- This will enhance our ability to understand, reason, and infer from vast amounts of data, increasing automation and speed of ETX processes
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