e therapeutics : Interim Results, July 2021 and RNAi Platform Development Presentation
10/26/2021 | 02:26am EDT
Integrating computational power and biology to discover life-transforming medicines
Interim results for six months ended 31 July 2021
Successful RNAi Platform
Development
October 2021
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Company Overview
Integrating computational power and biology to discover life-transforming medicines
Ability to model human biology and interrogate complexity for better and faster drug discovery
Experimentally validated computational platform centered around network biology
Increased translatability and improved probability of success
• Third party validation
Top5 Pharma
Competitive proprietary RNAi platform developed. Convergence with computational platform to rapidly identify and prosecute novel targets to unlock further value
Experienced leadership and growing multi-disciplinaryteam. Currently 34 FTE
Scope for future partnerships, across computational and RNAi platforms
Well-funded following recent £22.5m capital raise
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Highlights (incl. post period)
Significantly strengthened cash position to facilitate a number of initiatives, expanding the Company's platform capabilities and acceleration of the development of in-house RNAi pipeline
RNAi platform development
Successful proprietaryGalNAc-siRNAplatform developed and characterised. Equivalent performance to leading platforms demonstrated
11 patent applications filed to protect innovative GalNAc-siRNA construct designs
Computational platform - zooming into hepatocytes
Hepatocyte Knowledge Graph created and ambitious experimental omics data strategy underway
Expandedtarget identification focus and creation of tailored computational applications in hepatocytes and RNAi
Increased automation and cloud computing
Collaborations - further validation of our computational platform
Galapagos collaboration: Hit compounds successfully identified and 3 milestone payments received during the period. Collaboration active and hits being further investigated. Scope for further milestones through pre-clinical, clinical and commercial
Corporate
Successful£22.5m gross fund raise from new and existing shareholders
Commenced trading onOTCQX Best Market in the U.S. - important step to broaden shareholder base
Board and leadership changes and significant increase in scientific staff
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Financial Summary: Six months ended 31 July 2021
Six months ended
Six months ended
31 July 2021
31 July 2020
Revenue
£0.5m
£0.04m
Operating loss
£3.5m
£2.7m
Cash and cash equivalents
£31.6m
£15.1m*
R&D
£2.5m
£1.2m
Financial Highlights
Strengthened financial position following successful fund raise of £22.5m gross
Continued to carefully manage the underlying cash burn
focusing on generating income and achieving external commercial validation with our partners and;
investing in a new RNAi platform
Financial Outlook
Underlying cash burn in H2 expected to be higher than H1
further progress R&D activities
o build administrative infrastructure to support scaling of business
* £13.0m as of 31 January 2021 5
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