Founder Receives Prestigious Award
August 13 2010 - 1:00AM
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13 August 2010
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Lipoxen plc
('Lipoxen' or 'the Company')
Founder Gregory Gregoriadis Receives Prestigious Award
- Recognition for 40 years of service within the field of Liposome technology -
Lipoxen plc (AIM: LPX), a bio-pharmaceutical company specialising in the
development of high-value differentiated biologicals, vaccines and siRNA
delivery, is delighted to announce that its founder and Chief Scientific
Officer, Professor Gregory Gregoriadis has received a special "Founders Award"
in recognition of his 40 years of founding the field of liposomes in the
delivery of drugs and vaccines, and its promotion over the decades. The award
was presented at the recently held international conference at the University of
British Columbia in Vancouver, Canada focused on 'Lipids, Liposomes & Membrane
Biophysics'.
Commenting on the award Professor Gregory Gregoriadis PhD, DSc said: "I am
honoured to have been recognised for my work in the extremely exciting field of
liposome technology and to have received the Founders Award at this important
conference.
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About Lipoxen
Lipoxen plc is a biopharmaceutical company focused on the development of new and
improved biologic drugs and vaccines. Lipoxen has three proprietary patented
technology platforms:
1) PolyXen - for extending the efficacy and half life of biologic drugs
2) ImuXen - for creating new vaccines and improving existing vaccines
3) SiRNAblate - for the delivery of siRNA
Lipoxen's technology is designed to improve the efficacy, safety, stability,
biological half-life and immunologic characteristics of its products.
Lipoxen has multiple drug and vaccine programmes in development. Two products
are in clinical development, SuliXen, a long acting insulin and ErepoXen, a
long-acting erythropoietin (EPO). Lipoxen's preclinical pipeline includes
vaccines against HIV, influenza and malaria and an exclusive license deal with
Baxter Healthcare for blood coagulation drugs.
The Company has a low-risk business model and out-licenses its proprietary
technologies to biopharmaceutical companies that have strong manufacturing and
marketing capabilities. Lipoxen currently has commercial agreements with some
of the world's leading biotechnology and pharmaceutical companies including
Baxter, Schering-Plough, the Serum Institute of India Limited, Genentech, and
Genzyme. Furthermore, Baxter, the Company's third largest shareholder, and
management led the GBP2.9 million fundraising that the Company announced in May
2009. This fundraising was followed up by a GBP1.2 million placing in April 2010
which was led by the Company's management team.
Lipoxen, which was founded in 1997, trades on the AIM Market of the London Stock
Exchange under the ticker symbol LPX. More information can be found at the
Company's website: www.lipoxen.com.
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