Corporate File interview snippets"Funding is the other thing to...

Corporate File interview snippets

"Funding is the other thing to put in place and there are a number of ways of doing that.....Preparation and approval for a Phase III trial can be a long and involved process.....By doing as much forward planning as possible, we’ll be ready to go forward quickly, either with or without a partner, as soon as we have approval, subject of course to a successful outcome to the current study."

"Another option is to keep all rights to the drugs. We could raise capital in some form then use it to develop the drugs ourselves, in which case we’d retain the risk in-house, but we’d also retain more of the potential upside."

"I come from a research background, with five years inside a pharmaceutical company looking at many
potential licensing deals, and have experience in both raising capital and running biotechnology companies in the US, which is of course a very important market in terms of both capital raising and licensing activities."