Ann: Collaboration Agreement - siRNA delivery, page-14

From the announcement interesting to put a name to those who must be driving the technology in lieu of a CSO.

"Dr, Katrin Hoffmann, Phylogica’s Director of Research commented: “RNAi therapeutics have great potential but delivery beyond the liver remains a key challenge. We are excited to work together with Dan Peer, a leading expert in the systemic delivery of siRNA using targeted nanocarriers. This collaboration will provide important proof of concept data towards the delivery of siRNA/LNPs using our CPPs to develop more potent and safe RNAi therapeutics"."


I guess logically if we don't yet have a commercial deal then we need experts in the field of interest to actually take a look at what we are offering and hopefully be impressed or even better, blown away by it. It seems Prof Dan Peer is highly regarded in the field so hopefully he independently sees something worth remark. It has always felt like pyc internally are impressed with their own work but we never quite seem to get the external validation that might generate real excitement. Surely if we can actually do what we claim, then at some point someone who matters externally will agree and provide validation? Without that external validation i think we will only ever get a "collaboration" as others try to find out what we have. If an independent expert says wow then it could be on for young and old with real commercial deals. If they dont say wow then maybe we are being misled as we are not doing anything special.