ApconiX Press Category archive
Choosing the right non-clinical CRO Non-clinical contract research organisations (CROs) are an integral part of modern drug development. For any novel agent, delivery of GLP toxicity data to support clinical trials is a crucial step that requires a professional organisation with dedicated management, infrastructure and a broad array of technical [...]
Despite the fact that the number of diagnosed cases of malignant mesothelioma are expected to rise in the next decades, there has been little real progress in available treatments, and the chemotherapy drug used to treat the disease is the same one that has been used for the last several years. Though there is [...]
A co-founder of the company ApconiX, based in Alderley Park, has revealed his view that attitude towards safety in pre-clinical cancer drug development needs to change. “There is still huge unmet need in effective cancer treatment and it can be tempting for companies researching new drugs to focus mainly on efficacy data with safety [...]
ApconiX Newsletter January 2018 Please click on the title to hear all about people, places and progress. Best regards Ruth, Mike and Richard
Professor Ruth Roberts – co-founder and director of nonclinical safety company, ApconiX based at Alderley Park, Cheshire – is the first non-US-based scientist to receive a prestigious international award for professionals specialising in drug and chemical safety. She is only the tenth person to receive the US-based Society of Toxicology (SOT) Founders Award, presented for “outstanding leadership in fostering the role [...]
The business has just received the accolade of Start-Up of the Year at the 17th awards hosted by BioNow, the northern England bio-medical and life sciences membership organisation. The company’s early success is based on delivering expertise in safety toxicology and ion channel electrophysiology to a changing pharmaceutical sector, in which more companies are [...]
Cardiovascular toxicity often hinders success – are companies picking the wrong compounds? Prolific novelist and academic CS Lewis once said, “Failures are finger posts on the road to achievement.” (Given pharma’s drug failure rate, the road ahead must truly be paved in gold.) When it comes to drug safety failure, toxicity – especially to [...]
The European Centre of Excellence for preclinical cardiovascular electrophysiology. The ApconiX team is pleased to announce their alliance with PhysioStim to create a new Centre of Excellence dedicated to cardiac safety studies. Both companies team up to offer a complete range of services in nonclinical cardiovascular electrophysiology. ApconiX, based at Alderley Park in the [...]
Two prominent preclinical safety companies have launched a unique European alliance to address the high safety-related failure rate in drug development. This alliance will provide both high-throughput ion channel screening, advanced cardiovascular safety testing models and experienced project scientists in one collaborative team. This enables both large and small pharmaceutical companies to make the [...]
In February, APTrans signed a service agreement with Evgen Pharma to provide support to their lead program, SFX-01. Evgen Pharma is a clinical stage drug development company with projects in breast cancer and subarachnoid haemorrhage. APTrans is a consortium of companies based at the BioHub at Alderley Park, formed by ApconiX, Aptus Clinical and Seda [...]
