COLLABORATION WITH IMPERIAL COLLEGE LONDON

RNS Number : 7976T

Immupharma PLC

29 November 2021

 

RNS | 29 NOVEMBER 2021

ImmuPharma PLC

("ImmuPharma" or the "Company")

COLLABORATION WITH IMPERIAL COLLEGE LONDON

ImmuPharma PLC (LSE:IMM), the specialist drug discovery and development company,

is very pleased to announce that it has signed a 2-year collaboration agreement with Imperial College London.

Under the collaboration, Imperial College will provide significant intellectual input and guidance on a number of innovative peptide assets being developed at our R&D subsidiary, ImmuPharma Biotech in Bordeaux.

Dr Tim Franklin, Chief Operating Officer of ImmuPharma, added: "We are allextremely excited to be working with such a world leading academic institute. This union will be invaluable in guiding and progressing our earlier stage product development portfolio, as well as enhancing our intellectual property base."

Dr Sébastien Goudreau, Chief Executive Officer of ImmuPharma Biotech, added: "We are delighted that now with the full support from the new Board for our innovative research programs, we have the opportunity of working with collaboration partners which include world leading academic institutes such as Imperial College London."

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For further information please contact: ImmuPharma PLC (www.immupharma.com) Tim McCarthy, Chairman and Chief Executive Officer + 44 (0) 207 152 4080 Dr Tim Franklin, Chief Operating Officer Lisa Baderoon, Head of Investor Relations & Non-Executive Director + 44 (0) 7721 413496 SPARK Advisory Partners Limited (NOMAD) Neil Baldwin Stanford Capital Partners (Joint Broker) Patrick Claridge John Howes Bob Pountney SI Capital (Joint Broker) Nick Emerson [phone] [phone] [phone]

Notes to Editors

About ImmuPharma PLC

ImmuPharma PLC (LSE AIM: IMM) is a specialty biopharmaceutical company that discovers and develops peptide-based therapeutics. The Company's portfolio includes novel peptide therapeutics for autoimmune diseases, metabolic diseases, anti-infectives and cancer. The lead program, Lupuzor™, is a first-in class autophagy immunomodulator which is in Phase 3 for the treatment of lupus and preclinical analysis suggest therapeutic activity for many other autoimmune diseases that share the same autophagy mechanism of action. ImmuPharma and Avion Pharmaceuticals signed on 28 November 2019, an exclusive licence and development agreement and trademark agreement for Lupuzor™ to fund a new international Phase 3 trial for Lupuzor™ and commercialise in the US. The Lupzor™ Phase 3 trial is on track to commence in 2022.

For additional information about ImmuPharma please visit www.immupharma.co.uk 

ImmuPharma's LEI (Legal Entity Identifier) code: 213800VZKGHXC7VUS895.

About Imperial College London
Imperial College is a global top ten university with a world-class reputation in science, engineering, business and medicine. For more information go to: https://www.imperial.ac.uk

 

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